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The prevalence of homelessness grew both in San Francisco and throughout the United States in the late 1970s and early '80s. [10] Jennifer Wolch identifies some of these factors to include the loss of jobs from deindustrialization, a rapid rise in housing prices, and the elimination of social welfare programs. [11]
[29] [30] Many affluent tech workers migrated to San Francisco in pursuit of job opportunities and the lack of housing in the South Bay. [30] Until the end of the 1960s, San Francisco had affordable housing, which allowed people from many different backgrounds to settle down, but the economic shift impacted the city's demographics. [29]
[154] [155] Between 2005 and 2017, the city of San Francisco sent 10,500 homeless people out of town by bus. [156] A 2019 article in The New York Times reported that many bus ticket recipients were missing, unreachable, in jail, or homeless within a month after leaving San Francisco, and one out of eight returned to the city within a year. [154]
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San Francisco appeared to be the one bright spot, seeing homelessness decline slightly. Alameda County, which includes the city of Oakland, reported a 22% increase in this year's point-in-time ...
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California in 2017 is home to an oversized share of the nation's homeless: 22%, for a state whose residents only make up 12% of the country's total population. [23]: 1 [102] The Sacramento Bee notes that large cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco both attribute their increases in homeless to the housing shortage.
Crime, drug use and homeless encampments were all challenges before the coronavirus hit San Francisco. The pandemic turned them into a crisis. Breed, the mayor, has vowed to restore order .