- http://sfist.com/2016/02/11/71_of_sf_homeless_once_had_homes_in.php
- http://www.sfexaminer.com/despite-help-homeless-population-increases/
- https://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/sfgov.org.lhcb/files/2015%20San%20Francisco%20Homeless%20Count%20%20Report_0.pdf
- http://www.48hills.org/2016/02/16/five-myths-about-the-homeless-problem-in-san-francisco/
That's nothing short of unbelievable.
From the article in the last bullet point above:
The vast majority of the people who are homeless today used to be housed – in San Francisco. According to the city’s 2015 homeless count, 71 percent of the people on the streets were living in San Francisco when they lost their housing. That means seven out of ten homeless people used to be your neighbors – before the tech boom and the eviction epidemic. Those are, to a significant extent, people who are homeless not because they did anything wrong but because they aren’t rich enough to live in Ed Lee’s San Francisco.
