From what I understand, there are two fundamentally different types of homelessness. One is when someone “normal” is just down on their luck and who then tends to live with their friends until they get a new job or something. The other is when someone is severely mentally ill, to the point where it seriously interferes with their functioning in society, which leads to the sorts of homelessness you see on the streets.
When you analyze the correlation between homelessness and housing prices, are most of the cases of homelessness of the first type or of the second type? Is the association equally strong for both types?
Yeah I’m surprised to see this posted without mention of the Michael Shellenberger work on this topic. I actually think the above analysis hints at it: Why is there so much homelessness concentrated downtown here?
The elephant in the room is that many people who have hard drug habits prefer to live in encampments in central cites, and the authorities in the Bay Area (especially SF) are supportive of them doing so.
There are also a lot of people with housing insecurity due to the challenges of affording rent, but those are not the people living in the visible encampments.
From what I understand, there are two fundamentally different types of homelessness. One is when someone “normal” is just down on their luck and who then tends to live with their friends until they get a new job or something. The other is when someone is severely mentally ill, to the point where it seriously interferes with their functioning in society, which leads to the sorts of homelessness you see on the streets.
When you analyze the correlation between homelessness and housing prices, are most of the cases of homelessness of the first type or of the second type? Is the association equally strong for both types?
Yeah I’m surprised to see this posted without mention of the Michael Shellenberger work on this topic. I actually think the above analysis hints at it: Why is there so much homelessness concentrated downtown here?
The elephant in the room is that many people who have hard drug habits prefer to live in encampments in central cites, and the authorities in the Bay Area (especially SF) are supportive of them doing so.
There are also a lot of people with housing insecurity due to the challenges of affording rent, but those are not the people living in the visible encampments.