From 2005 to 2020, San Francisco experienced an astonishing 95 percent increase in unsheltered homelessness as the number of permanent supportive housing units offered by the city rose from 6,487 to 10,051.57 Today, San Francisco has the greatest quantity of permanent supportive housing units per capita of any major city in the United States. It has 11 permanent supportive housing units per 1,000 people, which is nearly three times as much as New York City (4 per 1,000 people) and Chicago (4 per 1,000), and over six times as much as Miami-Dade County (1.7 per 1,000).58 All of that, and yet the
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