If they found that out using a street poll, then they probably missed a lot of homeless who don’t appear homeless, are higher functioning, maybe they are crashing in their car and taking showers at a gym.
We know little about this problem, and most of our information depends on unreliable self reporting.
You provided no link to a methodology. But if it’s like other point in time surveys, it is only looking at people on the street or using services, and are well known for selection bias.
You have provided no evidence either and your claims are vague and not derived from any named study. In any case, PIT as operated by SF HSH can be found here, which certainly you could have reached with a simple Google search of the terms I used: https://hsh.sfgov.org/about/research-and-reports/pit-hic/.
In addition, people who are not legible to PIT methodology are certainly not rolled up into state level statistics upon which this claim of failure and the article rest, so in many ways their existence is not relevant to my point or this discussion.
> In addition, people who are not legible to PIT methodology are certainly not rolled up into state level statistics upon which this claim of failure and the article rest, so in many ways their existence is not relevant to my point or this discussion.
OK, I agree that PIT just counts what it counts. But then that means any homeless that aren’t counted by PIT aren’t relevant. It’s just bad data that we can’t really work with.
I’m going to be honest: I can’t find a single way the criticisms of PIT you’ve linked relate to the conversation at all. We are discussing why the $5k/mo SF spent on tent villages is incommensurable to studio rents. Even if it were the case that PIT overrepresented people with mental health or drug abuse issues, it’s still true that the 10k or so homeless individuals counted by it had a 70% rate of reporting those problems. Which means housing them is not a matter of simply paying rent.
We know little about this problem, and most of our information depends on unreliable self reporting.