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by wilg 1124 days ago
As I posted elsewhere in this thread, not a good diagnosis of homelessness. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/everything-you-think-you-know-...
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Houses per capita: https://imgur.com/oS9d2kf from https://www.oecd.org/els/family/HM1-1-Housing-stock-and-cons...

Homeless per 10k: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_ho...

Notice that USA has more houses per capita than countries with homeless populations that are significantly smaller.

People can move between American states easily. If there's a state where living as a homeless person is easier - people without homes will move there. Which will cause the problem to grow there and decrease in the origin state. If you really wanted to only compare American states - at least split the states by "homeless produced" vs "homeless exported". Otherwise it's just propaganda. Also - why would you only compare American states? Seems very manipulative. Like you wanted to ignore the possible causes of the problem that are shared by all American states.

I had a friend in college who lived in a trailer; he had a mortgage that was something like $17/month. The majority of the expense was renting the spot.

The truth is there already is cheap shelter available .. just not near downtown LA.

Not sure what you're talking about, but I think if you honestly look into the situation you'll find the right answer.