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Nifty775 writes:

This doesn\'t address allegations that many of California\'s homeless are from elsewhere, but deliberately moved to a few metro areas due to nice weather and generous social services. (Or, I\'ve heard stories that their local town put them on a bus to SF). If .2% of the population everywhere is basically OK with a lifestyle of camping on the street and doing drugs, and then they all cluster in one area- that area will likely end up a mecca of homelessness.

Many comments made this point. Shellenberger did bring it up in the book, so its absence in the post is my fault and mine alone. He writes:

I asked experts and advocates, \\u201cHow do we know that the homeless population won\\u2019t replace itself if provided with housing?\\u201d Said Randy Shaw, the Tenderloin permanent supportive housing provider, \\u201cThe question you\\u2019re raising is one that never gets discussed. Somehow, there\\u2019s this sense that San Francisco is under the obligation that anyone who comes here we have to suddenly house. There is an underlying logic that San Francisco doesn\\u2019t really ever want to talk about.\\u201d