Ok this is as much a WTF as my post above
"Huh? California Gov Newsom: ‘Vast majority’ of homeless in San Francisco are from Texas
Politifact California summarizes the governor’s point:
Newsom said most of the homeless people on the street when he left office were not from California, but added “we took responsibility” for them.
He then made the head-scratching claim about Texas.
“The vast majority (of San Francisco’s homeless people) also come in from — and we know this — from Texas. Just (an) interesting fact,” Newsom said.
Politifact California went through a
scrub of “point in time” homeless counts in San Francisco, which are done every other year. They determined that between 8% and 16% of the homeless in San Francisco, depending on the year, had come from outside the state of California. The homeless population originating from San Francisco itself varied from 60-70% of the count.
The balance of the homeless were from other parts of California.
The bottom line here is that, even if people from Texas represented
all of the out-of-state homeless, they couldn’t possibly be the “vast majority” of San Francisco’s homeless population.
Texans don’t, of course, represent all of the out-of-state homeless. So where did Newsom get his claim?"