Received by a Democrat Female voter on 10/03/2024 via mail.
This mailer claims that the number of unhoused people declined while he was mayor. That’s true — after the homeless population had increased.
Faulconer was elected in 2014 and served through 2020. Homelessness grew in the city during his first years in office. The hepatitis A outbreak in 2016-17, largely attributed to unsanitary conditions in homeless encampments, resulted in 20 people dying and hundreds of others becoming ill.
A few years later, in 2020, the annual homeless census results that showed a 12 percent year-over-year drop in street homelessness in the city along with a smaller 4 percent decrease in the overall population.
The annual homeless census tallied overall increases in homelessness three of the seven years he was mayor.
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