But there is no evidence for what Kim claimed. In fact, the number of reported attacks on the homeless declined nationwide between 2008 and 2017 from 106 to 29, according to a study by a homelessness advocacy organization, even as concern over homelessness rose from 38 to 47 percent.51 The main perpetrators of violence against the homeless tend to be other homeless people, or drug dealers, according to people who have lived on the streets.
