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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re: the stats from a pp - you need to drill down.

DC has 3,770 homeless adult individuals (that number doesn't include adults in families who you don't see on the street). And DC counted 9 unaccompanied homeless youth.

SF has well over 5.5k homeless adult individuals plus well over 1k unaccompanied homeless youth.

I have worked in the homeless advocacy arena for two decades, and I do think it's odd that SF and other parts of CA continue to have such issues with visible street homelessness despite having invested so much money to address the problem. San Diego and LA similarly have significant issues--as does the Orange Couny area. Seattle does, too---and Seattle is widely heralded for its innovative strategies to address homelessness.

It does make me wonder if the generous infrastructure attracts or enables street homelessness---particularly when it comes to youth. SF, LA and Seattle have big homeless youth populations (in excess of 1k). DC only counted 9---yet as a pp pointed out, SF only has 1k more homeless people than DC. Why is that? [/quote]

The differences in population between DC and San Francisco can be attributed to the differences in overall population.  SF proper is bigger than DC proper and SF metro area is bigger than DC metro area. [/quote]

But the counts are for the city, not the metro area. Ie: numbers for MoCo, PG, Fairfax, etc. are not included in the DC count. They are broken out by jurisdiction.

And the youth numbers are shockingly different. [/quote]

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