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Originally Posted by Novacek
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16 v 17 is a typo. also nitpicking, not engaging with my main point. doesn't make a difference.
I was referring to the 17% rise in homelessness, not bussing. Thought that was obvious.
interesting graph. more info on that here including the PIT study itself
https://www.statesman.com/news/20200...red-population
https://1zdndu3n3nla353ymc1h6x58-wpe...d-7.9.2020.pdf
first off from what I can tell everybody sources the PIT study. That almost seems insane to me. Maybe the most talked about issue in our city and the data we use is based off of a 1 night a year poll where a few hundred people go out and count all homeless people they can find and survey them. seriously look at our cities website
https://www.austintexas.gov/homelessness it's all data from the 2020 PIT study.
secondly 2,506 homeless people is probably 1/3 what i would have guessed the population is of homeless in this city. that's not an incredibly huge number. this can be good news or bad news.
thirdly, i can now tell all of the "11, 17, x% increase in homeless population" articles you have read over the years are all bs and more reflective of the limitations of the study itself and ECHO says as much. see fig. 2 on page 4 in the PIT pdf
Earlier in this thread the thought that homeless people were 1 way bussed in this country was called a "conspiracy". When I illustrated it was very real and how to find more info the goalposts were moved to "but it doesn't happen in austin" when I proved it does happen in austin the goalpoasts were moved to "but that was 5 years ago" when someone pointed out a homeless man bussed in last week the goalposts became "well that's too small a sample size" This is when I ended my dialogue with that person and told them I did not think they were interested in having a good faith argument.
It looks like you think me being wrong about >50% of homeless being from outside of the city is enough to accuse me of acting in bad faith and dishonest. Not how this works.
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