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   Tell the truth Democrats!   
      
   The real reason California has this crisis is because of the drug program   
   scam Nancy Pelosi and her nephew Gavin cooked up.  The program had no   
   oversight, was riddled with felons who recruited drug addicts from all   
   over the country.  They got paid over $30,000 a month to rehabilitate the   
   addicts.  The treatment amounted to giving them a place to stay, making   
   sure they attended meetings, took drug tests and when the money ran out,   
   kicked them back on the street to make room for the next bunch.   
      
   Oakland and Los Angeles both have higher rates of homelessness than San   
   Francisco, with those three California cities topping a list of 16 similar   
   cities across the country, according to a new analysis. Oakland had much   
   higher rates than San Francisco, with 1,147 homeless people per 100,000   
   residents versus 887.   
      
   The report from the San Francisco controller looked at homeless rates as   
   well as housing and shelter across peer cities to get a sense of how San   
   Francisco stacks up. It found large West Coast cities have higher rates of   
   overall homelessness, including unsheltered homelessness, than many of   
   their East Coast counterparts.   
      
      
   This mirrors a recent report that found more than 171,000 people   
   experience homelessness daily in California, about twice as many as the   
   next highest state, New York. That study found that high housing costs are   
   a major driver of homelessness.   
      
   San Francisco fared worse than other California cities in certain areas,   
   such as youth homelessness, but came out better in other metrics including   
   the percentages of families experiencing homelessness, people living   
   unsheltered in vehicles or on the streets, and chronically people   
   homeless.   
      
   Despite some modestly encouraging data, homelessness — especially people   
   living unsheltered — remains one of the most visible and pressing issues   
   for city politicians, residents and advocates. The recent report reveals   
   how hard homelessness has hit California, and the Bay Area in particular,   
   but shows how San Francisco’s efforts and millions spent on the crisis   
   have paid off in some respects.   
      
   The controller’s data, released Wednesday, was based on the Point in Time   
   Count, a federally mandated one-night tally conducted every two years,   
   except for a year skipped during the pandemic. The city selected 15 of San   
   Francisco’s peers based on similar population and density. Seattle and New   
   York City weren’t included on the list because they either didn’t do the   
   same count or didn’t publicly release data, the controller said.   
      
   From 2019 to 2022, San Francisco saw a 3% drop in the number of people   
   experiencing homelessness. While Berkeley also had a 5% drop, Oakland saw   
   a 24% increase and Sacramento a 67% jump.   
      
   San Francisco saw the largest drop in unsheltered homelessness — 15% —   
   over the past couple years of any West Coast city. The city had the fourth   
   highest ratio of people living unsheltered per 100,000 residents last   
   year. In San Francisco, just more than half of people experiencing   
   homelessness were unsheltered, while in Berkeley and San Jose, that ratio   
   was 3 out of 4.   
      
      
   The rates of unsheltered homelessness were much higher in West Coast   
   cities than East Coast cities. Some other cities, especially those with   
   cold weather including Boston, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis, are   
   “right to shelter” cities where the city is obligated to provide a shelter   
   bed for everyone who needs one.   
      
      
   Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and some San Francisco officials have pushed   
   for the city to do the same.   
      
   Some homeless advocates have resisted Mandelman’s call, arguing the city   
   should be focusing on permanent housing to solve homelessness instead of   
   temporary shelter. They fear the city will use more interim shelter to   
   justify police sweeps of encampments and criminalization of people living   
   on the streets. The city is fighting a lawsuit that argues it violates   
   federal law by disbanding homeless camps without offering adequate   
   shelter.   
      
   The city said providing shelter and temporary housing for the entire   
   unhoused population would cost $1 billion.   
      
   The report also revealed San Francisco had a relatively low percentage of   
   family homelessness with just 8%, which was slightly higher than the rate   
   in San Jose and Oakland. In contrast, in Boston, 65% of people   
   experiencing homelessness were in families.   
      
   Just more than 1 in 3 people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco   
   was chronically homeless, defined as someone who has a disability and has   
   been homeless for at least a year. That was a lower percentage than   
   Berkeley’s, about half, and more than 40% in Sacramento and Los Angeles.   
      
   San Francisco did, however, have the second-highest percentage of people   
   age 18 to 24 experiencing homelessness — 13% — second to D.C. at 38%. San   
   Francisco also ranked fifth highest for veteran homelessness.   
      
   The report also looked at the availability of shelter, permanent housing   
   and rental vouchers based on federally reported housing inventories.   
      
   San Francisco ranked fourth lowest for the number of temporary shelter   
   beds available per 100 persons experiencing homelessness, above Alameda,   
   Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties and just behind Sacramento.   
      
   When it comes to permanent supportive housing, San Francisco had the   
   second highest number of units per 100,000 residents, after D.C.   
      
   The city ranked fourth highest for the number of people in rapid rehousing   
   units, usually a time-limited rental subsidy. The city expanded that   
   service by 189% over the past couple years, the most of any city, and   
   perhaps part of the reason for the drop in homelessness numbers.   
      
   Reach Mallory Moench: mallory.moench@sfchronicle.com   
      
   https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-homeless-crisis-oakland-new-   
   report-housing-18262961.php   
      
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