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Originally Posted by DistrictDirt
I would love for SF to win this one but living in downtown LA a few blocks from Skid Row and witnessing the depths of despair there every day, I don't see how any city in the country has LA "beat" in this measure. That's not a brag. Its a blight on our city and I hope this city gets it together in terms of affordable housing and care for the mentally ill sooner than later.
LA and SF the near perfect weather combined with high cost of living combined with a lot of social programs designed to help the homeless equals a lot of homeless... this not even counting all the runaway kids that move to Hollywood each year and end of homeless you have that problem as well.
San Francisco appears to be the consensus here, and I'd have to agree. I have never EVER seen so many homeless people in any city in my life. You literally have to step over them to walk down the sidewalks. No coincidence that San Francisco has the most liberal laws in the country when it comes to homelessness: Free health care and three free meals a day. It's tragic.
It is very tragic, indeed, because most of the homeless people are a product of mental illness and alcohol abuse, and the mental illness people get involved in both.......
If you mean straight homeless, like anybody homeless, I would vote... Philadelphia/Chicago/Atlanta/Detroit, for the amount of crackheads/heroin users walking around randomly because of poverty/bad life/no life/no jobs available/crack era users that grew up.
Philadelphia/Detroit share a number of 45,000 abandoned houses in the city. Not even counting the Philadelphia houses that got tore down and now is grass. Detroit's abandoned house numbers are still going up there because people are leaving or getting evicted and living on the streets (even more homeless/crackheads)
If you mean popular homeless people, it would probably be... Los Angeles.
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