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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Many (if not most) of the homeless in Seattle, San Fransisco, Vancouver, etc are people who moved there with no support, no job, and no housing.
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Originally Posted by opendoor
I don't know about Seattle, but for both Vancouver and San Francisco, approximately 85% of homeless people were residents of those cities or neighboring cities/counties at the time they became homeless. And something like half of the homeless in San Francisco are longtime residents of the city (10+ years).
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Well, these claims are in direct conflict. My gut and interaction with disadvantaged people says that homeless don't have the means to move around too much.