https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...-country-study
This is neat article on the "bussing out" programs on homeless populations in the US and their impact.
While the data doesn't show how many people either become homeless in the city they live in vs one they move to, it does show that many cities offer one-way bus tickets to homeless populations.
It looks like their are generally three outcomes:
- Bus back to a home city where there are support networks and people recover.
- Bus them back home where there is a broken support system which may have been the reason the person left to begin with.
- bus them to anywhere and then say "not my problem anymore" where perhaps there is no support network