KQED⁠61%

Homelessness Is Down in SF, But Not for Families ⁠79%

By Ericka Cruz Guevarra⁠0%

5/18/2026, 3:00:16 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Negativity Bias, and Recency Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 33% saturation with 38 hits. Analysis detected 248 faulty-reasoning hits from 115 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 70.7% and a BS Rank of ⁠79% (4,608 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 79.00% of the article peer group.

San Francisco has seen a 22% decrease in people sleeping on the streets, according to preliminary data from this year’s Point In Time count. 
But the number of families experiencing homelessness has gone up 15%. 
Recent changes have allowed families to stay longer in shelters, but securing affordable housing remains a challenge. 
In this episode, we meet one family caught up in the city’s shelter system as they wait for more permanent housing. 
This episode originally aired Aug 4, 2025 
Links: 
Fewer People Are Sleeping on San Francisco Streets. 
But Family Homelessness Is Up 
SF Families Win Shelter Extension Rights, Still Face Long Waits for Housing 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 14.8%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 1.4%CalMatters: 1.9%Confirmation Bias14.8%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 1.6%CalMatters: 0.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 18.3%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 4.7%CalMatters: 3.0%Availability Heuristic18.3%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 1.8%CalMatters: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.1%CalMatters: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 32.2%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 13.1%CalMatters: 6.3%Framing Effect32.2%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.8%CalMatters: 1.0%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.5%CalMatters: 0.7%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 10.4%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 2.2%CalMatters: 3.5%Optimism Bias10.4%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 2.8%CalMatters: 1.4%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 21.7%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 10.4%CalMatters: 6.4%Negativity Bias21.7%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.2%CalMatters: 1.7%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.3%CalMatters: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 3.1%CalMatters: 1.7%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 1.4%CalMatters: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 4.2%CalMatters: 2.7%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.3%CalMatters: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 20.9%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 2.4%CalMatters: 0.9%Recency Bias20.9%This article: 7.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.7%CalMatters: 0.3%Primacy Effect7.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.5%CalMatters: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.3%CalMatters: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 20.9%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 1.7%CalMatters: 3.1%Appeal to Authority20.9%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 2.6%CalMatters: 1.1%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.1%CalMatters: 0.8%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 3.9%CalMatters: 3.6%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.4%CalMatters: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.3%CalMatters: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 4.1%CalMatters: 5.3%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.4%CalMatters: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 2.5%CalMatters: 2.0%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.5%CalMatters: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.2%CalMatters: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.3%CalMatters: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.4%CalMatters: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 18.3%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 2.7%CalMatters: 3.1%Anecdotal18.3%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 1.1%CalMatters: 1.2%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.1%CalMatters: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.0%CalMatters: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.6%CalMatters: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 4.2%CalMatters: 0.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 1.0%CalMatters: 0.7%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 33.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 7.9%CalMatters: 3.1%Biased Writer Voice33.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.9%CalMatters: 1.9%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 2.0%CalMatters: 1.1%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 0.3%CalMatters: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 18.3%Ericka Cruz Guevarra: 1.4%CalMatters: 1.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…18.3%

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