Harger: San Francisco’s homelessness hit a 15-year low. Seattle’s mayor is running the opposite experiment.

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced his city’s homeless count results this week, standing in front of Hope House, a transitional housing facility in San Francisco run by the Salvation Army.

Hope House is sober. If you want to stay there, you don’t use.

That detail matters. Because Lurie didn’t just pick a random backdrop. He picked the philosophy, and the numbers suggest the philosophy is working…

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