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Originally Posted by pscajunguy
When I went to San Francisco, I couldn't believe the homeless population, but Austin's got to have 10X as many.
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Where are you getting this from? Here in San Francisco you have blocks flooded with homeless people. Just go to Turk from Market to Larkin. And this is just in one neighborhood. You still have SOMA and Mission and as well as other neighborhoods. San Francisco is regarded as having the highest population of homelessness per capita. Wikipedia also has the population at 13,500 with about 6,000 living in the streets. Meanwhile austintexas.gov has the number of homeless people living in the streets at around 2,300.
This website (
http://www.austinecho.org/community-data/ ) has a more detailed number of homeless people being served in Austin. It's not small but it certainly doesn't look as chaotic as here in San Francisco. They are also less aggressive in Austin. I've had too many confrontations with homeless people... even to the point where i have been threatened. In Austin they're just annoying wanting to make friendly talk... but I can see some of them being threatening and aggressive.