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[lonelappde]

It's not. It only looks like a large number because they are all crammed into a small public space and not hidden inside condos and houses.

We have more of an epidemic of rich people squatting in hundreds of miles of waterfront property and ruining shoreline access for the public.

[freyr → lonelappde]

Wrong.

Alameda County, 43% increase in homeless population in two years.

San Francisco, 17% increase.

Orange County, 42% increase.

Kern County, 50% increase.

In Seattle/King County, 28% increase in the chronically homeless population from 2017 to 2018.