| > If your pool of possible homeless is 5M and they gather in a city the size of 600k it is a hugely different situation than say San Francisco, which is 800k and draws from 330M possible homeless I'm struggling to follow your logic here. The 'possible homeless' would not be total population of a country - if it is, you've got more urgent problems. I think in the USA the number's around 500,000, or about 0.2%, yeah? There's more than one city in Finland, but even if there wasn't (but there really is!) there's definitely more than one big city in the USA, so I don't understand that extrapolation to 'all the homeless will move to San Fran'. And even if they did, you've still got the considerable resources of the USA [0] that could be brought to bear on the problem. The fact that the problem is distributed quite widely, and definitely not exclusive to large urban centers[1] should make it easier. [0] https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/category/military... [1] https://www.security.org/resources/homeless-statistics/#regi... |