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If you look at the official figures: San Francisco - 7,539 homeless out of population of 837k[0] Tokyo - 1500 - 5000 homeless out of 13.62 million [1] It is
by lqdc13 10y ago
If you look at the official figures:
San Francisco - 7,539 homeless out of population of 837k[0]
Tokyo - 1500 - 5000 homeless out of 13.62 million [1]
It is orders of magnitude difference.
[0]http://abc7news.com/news/data-shows-sf-has-2nd-highest-homeless-population-in-us/1407123/ http://abc7news.com/news/data-shows-sf-has-2nd-highest-homel...
[1]http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/10/17/homelessness-in-tokyo-hits-record-low/ http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/10/17/homelessness-i...
- seanmcdirmid 10y agoJapanese statistics are hardly reliable, many people hide their homelessness quite well. Anyways, it isn't socially unacceptable to be homeless, after encountering a few homeless encampments in Osaka parks, it doesn't feel that unusual.