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by glimshe 995 days ago
Thank you - one thing that can be slightly misleading when reading this number is that 50% of the homeless adults are over 50. This doesn't mean (and you didn't say so) that 50% of the adults over 50 are homeless. It's not possible to know, by just reading this percentage, whether the homeless situation of older adults is getting better or worse in total numbers.
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Further, those numbers alone could also be very good: it could just mean that less people get and will get homeless.

That's of course not the case and the actual situation is not good, just sayin'. Good case of how you can spin statistics to tell a story.