[rocky_raccoon]

I'm staring at the 653,000 figure and still can't determine if I'm shocked because it seems surprisingly low or high. Perhaps it's because the previous poster dropped a 40 million number that moved my frame of reference.

To put it into perspective for myself, 653,000 is larger than the following cities, based on 2022 estimates:

- Boston - Portland - Louisville - Memphis - Detroit - Baltimore

[smt88]

The number is surprisingly low. Most developed countries have worse rates of homelessness than the US, including Germany and The Netherlands [1].

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_...

[sokoloff]

That’s using a “Boston proper” definition of Boston (“your mailing address ends in ‘Boston, MA’”), which is fine in some ways, misleading in others.

The Boston metro area (where you’d be prone to tell someone you just met in California “I live in Boston”) is almost 5M.