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> Do you really think people who get evicted for not paying bills automatically get sent to a different city?

When did I say that?

> How do you propose your magic mechanism to send people from SF away the moment they become homeless?

What does this have to do with anything? The vast majority of tenants evicted in San Francisco receive both legal representation and relocation fees starting at ~$7k per person and more if you claim disability, which most do.

There are ~80 nonpayment evictions in the city annually, and there were ~0 from 2020-2023.

> Someone who ends up homeless is going to stay in a place that is familiar to them.

Probably true of the average homeless person, but there are many more homeless people outside San Francisco than in it, so you only need to believe a small percentage of, say, California's homeless population ends up in the city for local homelessness to be dominated by folks who lost their last stable shelter outside the city.



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