On: Boise is why L.A. can’t legally clear its streets of homeless encampments

[olliej]

Boise is a magical city with only 1600-2000 homeless people, as opposed to the chaos of LA with its 36000 homeless!

Oh, except Boise has a population of 228000 to LAs 4 million.

So LA is 17 times larger. So basic scaling would be equivalent to 28-35k homeless.

I think the reason Boise is having less difficulty with homelessness is solely because it’s a small city.