[oxfordmale]

In the US, a lot of homeless people are likely in prison. There is also a second class of people who live on the streets during thr week(San Francisco), but then travel back to their home for the weekend

The Japanese do have homelessness problem, they are just not recorded. Knowing Japan, it is something bureaucratic. Unless you register yourself as living in the street, it is assumed you live on your last known adress. And you likely can't register yourself as living on the street as that is illegal.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/19/japan.justinmc...

[seanmcdirmid]

A lot of people lose their support network in prison (or lose it before going in) and are released to the streets. They just get an open bus ticket courtesy of the state, go where it’s possible to live as homeless, and that’s it. A lot of the bussing we hear about is simply these open bus tickets prisons (especially Texan prisons) give out to people with no one picking them up.

[TheCleric]

As well the negative feedback loop of how hard it is to get good employment after going to prison.

[sneak]

Correspondingly, I understood Japan's covid numbers were so low during the early stages of the pandemic due to the fact that you could only get officially counted covid tests with great difficulty and discouragement.