Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area" in English language version.
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(help)In their University of California Press book "Homelessness is a Housing Problem," authors Clayton Page Aldern and Gregg Colburn looked at various contributing issues of homelessness, including mental illness and addiction, and the per capita rate of homelessness around the country. By looking at the rate of homelessness per 1,000 people, they found communities with the highest housing costs had some of the highest rates of homelessness, something that might be overlooked when looking at just the overall raw number of homeless people.
Two solutions would work. We need a new type of detention within the justice system – one dedicated to drug treatment and mental health. And we need to lengthen jail terms for misdemeanors. That may sound odd, but it's rational. A misdemeanor is a crime for which someone spends 364 days or less in jail. But in big counties, if a person is convicted of a misdemeanor, that person may spend less than a day in jail. This is too short to conduct any meaningful assessment or intervention.
Santa Clara County's largest shelter, the Boccardo Reception Center, reported its guests go from there into permanent housing just 5% of the time. ... Oakland's bare-bones "community cabins," like the one Foster lives in on Northgate Avenue, moved people to permanent housing at a rate of 28% – far short of the county's goal of 50%, but still better than shelter outcomes. Add more amenities – specifically bathrooms – and that figure rises. "Bridge housing communities" like the one Henderson occupied in San Jose, where residents share flush toilets and showers onsite, move people to permanent housing at a rate of 46%. And San Jose's nicest tiny home model – which is more spacious and provides a full, private bathroom in each unit – has succeeded in transitioning people to permanent housing 54% of the time. ... At the low end of the spectrum, running Boccardo, the San Jose shelter, costs $17,155 per bed per year. Oakland's Oak Street cabin site costs a little more – $22,368 per bed per year. On the pricier side, the San Jose tiny homes with en suite bathrooms cost an average of $34,200 per bed per year. The median rent for a studio apartment in San Jose runs $28,644 per year, according to Zillow – but of course, that doesn't include case workers and other services.
Cities that have seen dramatic rent increases, such as San Francisco and Los Angeles, attribute their spikes in homelessness directly to a state housing shortage that has led to an unprecedented affordability crisis.
But when Colburn compared cities with high and low numbers of homelessness based on poverty, drug use, and mental health treatment factors, there was a clear answer that housing plays an outsize role in homelessness — and most academics have agreed on it for a while. It just hasn't been embraced by the general public yet.
The doctors group told the San Francisco delegation that while they loved the city, postconvention surveys showed their members were afraid to walk amid the open drug use, threatening behavior and mental illness that are common on the streets.
The annual cost of one spot in one site is 2½ times the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco.
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(help)When San Francisco, for example, reports on the number of people "exiting" homelessness, it includes the tally of people who are put on a bus and relocated elsewhere in the country. It turns out that almost half of the 7,000 homeless people San Francisco claims to have helped lift out of homelessness in 2013-16 were simply given one-way tickets out of the city.
Cities that have seen dramatic rent increases, such as San Francisco and Los Angeles, attribute their spikes in homelessness directly to a state housing shortage that has led to an unprecedented affordability crisis.
The doctors group told the San Francisco delegation that while they loved the city, postconvention surveys showed their members were afraid to walk amid the open drug use, threatening behavior and mental illness that are common on the streets.
Two solutions would work. We need a new type of detention within the justice system – one dedicated to drug treatment and mental health. And we need to lengthen jail terms for misdemeanors. That may sound odd, but it's rational. A misdemeanor is a crime for which someone spends 364 days or less in jail. But in big counties, if a person is convicted of a misdemeanor, that person may spend less than a day in jail. This is too short to conduct any meaningful assessment or intervention.
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