I live in San Francisco and I don’t see how it could be worse. I’ve lived everywhere in the world and I’ve never seen such disparity. It’s depressing honestly. Every day I walk on market street to get to my bus and in 15 minutes I see 15 homeless people. They are always crazy, like they’re going to die, some will try to grab me as I walk passed them sometimes. It’s fucking depressing.

Not a useful link. All I get is a big pop-div saying I have to pay $49 to see the chart.

I think if you arrive at the page from a google search you see more information.

California is a big state of which San Francisco is a small part (2.2% population wise to be specific). San Francisco could be a disaster zone and the state stats would hardly budge.

"Well, we're not a real third world city you see - just a techno-dystopia."

Homelessness is a product of being urban. So this statistic needs to control for percent urban to be meaningful.

Case in point : Mississippi has the lowest homelessness in the US.

Idk, I think the statistic is probably a bit misleading. But the case it point is a bit off as well. Alaska is top ten homelessness and very rural.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territori...

These are the kinds of things Steve Ballmer's USAFacts should have, but it doesn’t.

What on earth is going on in DC?

They've been having problems for nearly 4 decades.

Wow, surprising to see the DC numbers but I always felt the downtown area was much cleaner than SF.

The Federal Triangle sure is, but that's because Feddy-Gov makes sure it stays clean. Plus several spy-types have masqueraded as homeless to take pictures of people coming in and out of FBI HQ, etc. -- easy to justify things with "National Security"

paid access. cant see article.