"Local homeless services providers keep statistics, which show that around 80 percent of their clients are from this area. Not that it matters." - Lynn Porter

Um, no. This lie has been repeated so often that far too many people take it as true. What has been asked is if homeless clients have ever had a Eugene address; that's a far cry from being from this area. In fact, most of our homeless population were homeless when they arrived, attracted by our lack of law enforcement and plentiful free food and services. If it was otherwise, we would have to be uniquely and extemely horrid at raising people to function in today's society. No, we're not ten times as bad as average at raising functional humans. (We do, however, have nearly ten times the national average of homeless people.)