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Originally Posted by opendoor
That article (either intentionally or unintentionally) distorts the numbers pretty heavily. What they don't mention is their percentages aren't of the entire population surveyed, but only of the portion of the homeless population not originally from Vancouver. So that 44% from the rest of Canada is 44% of the 45% of respondents who ever reported living outside of Vancouver. So that means that ~20% of respondents (44% of 45%) were from outside BC originally and a further ~14% were from within BC, but outside of the Lower Mainland.
But of course, that only means that at some point in their lives, they lived outside of Vancouver. So someone born in Ontario who moved to Vancouver as a teenager, and then became homeless in their 40s is going to show up as being from outside BC in that stat. If you look at place of residence prior to becoming homeless, over 80% list the City of Vancouver and a significant number of the remainder would have lived in the general region at the point they became homeless.
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Yes, but how long had they been living in Vancouver? Vancouver proper is a relatively small city of under 700k, with the vast majority being very affluent. Very few homeless people are going to be truly homegrown. Certainly not 80%.