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>>That's solved in every industrialized country besides America. Whoa. That's an interesting unsubstantiated statistic. A quick (albeit unnecessary) Google sea
by mojomark 9y ago
>>That's solved in every industrialized country besides America.
Whoa. That's an interesting unsubstantiated statistic. A quick (albeit unnecessary) Google search begs to differ: https://homelessworldcup.org/homelessness-statistics/ https://homelessworldcup.org/homelessness-statistics/
- david927 9y agoIt's really not. First, I said industrialized. I know that homelessness is high in some poorer countries. I'm talking about the wealthy countries such as most EU countries. Switzerland, for example, doesn't remotely have this problem.
- marak830 9y agoAustralia has the same issue. Unless you can argue Australia isn't a 1st world country.
- david927 9y agoDid you read the full comment? Australia, I'm guessing, is more similar to Idaho than California.
- marak830 9y agoI commented before the edit, but even after the edit I don't agree. (As someone who volunteered assisting mentialy handicapped homeless for 3 years).
- crispinb 9y agoHomeless is increasing fast in Australia, largely a consequence of property speculation. It's also increasing in every European country except Finland (https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2016/sep/14/lessons-from-finland-helping-homeless-housing-model-homes https://www.theguardian.com/housing-network/2016/sep/14/less...).
- jbg_ 9y agoI can only assume you haven't spent a lot of time in the EU... Switzerland (which is not in the EU) is the only European country I've been to that does not have a very visible population of homeless people.
- david927 9y ago20 years in Europe. I've never never never never tripped over crazy homeless. It's all I do in Berkeley and SF. It's not a small, nuanced difference but literally night and day. Have you really seen tents downtown in any city in Europe? I'm American but most Europeans I know struggle with living in the Bay Area because it's such a shock for them.
- aaron-lebo 9y agoSF is also an extreme example of homeless problems because of various factors (weather, systems which attract homeless, etc). There's a homeless problem in other cities, but we don't have tents downtown.
- david927 9y agoI was in LA recently and there was an entire tent city in the heart of downtown Orange County. The link below lists around 30 US cities with tent cities downtown.
- hacking_again 9y agoCanada has also had this problem. http://tentcity.wikidot.com/list-of-tent-cities http://tentcity.wikidot.com/list-of-tent-cities
- marak830 9y agoI have in Japan, I have seen drunks at 10am arguing and throwing shit at each other. It's not a US only problem. Edit: autocorrect -.-
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- stcredzero 9y agoI know from being involved with a Washington state based NGO That there are entire unincorporated Spanish speaking villages in Washington. Even in places like Germany and Japan, you have itinerants. I highly doubt any country has a zero homeless population. That said, there is a big difference between such people who are largely self sufficient and stay out of the public eye, and those that don't. The latter are identified by society as a problem.
- david927 9y agoIt's really not an issue of visibility. European countries tend to spend less of their money on military and more on social programs so that it's both harder to become homeless in the first place and, if it happens, there are programs to help you.
- tmccrmck 9y agoThey do. But I would like to see homeless populations as a percentage of the whole population before making a judgement. I would still expect the US to have a larger percentage but not that much higher. I was in Denmark/Germany/Netherlands/France/Greece this year and saw a good amount of homeless -- though they've been dealing with a migrant crisis unlike the U.S. has experienced. Many commenters here are extrapolating on their experiences in SF/Oakland/LA/Seattle/Portland and thinking the rest of the US has a commensurate homeless population. Spoiler: they don't.
- stcredzero 9y agothough they've been dealing with a migrant crisis unlike the U.S. has experienced. There are many parallels between the current migration crisis and the Irish potato famine, though I'm not sure how they compare in scale. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHr9GRgRw_M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHr9GRgRw_M
- s3nnyy 9y agoSwitzerland is also not in the EU and is completely different from all the other countries. It's the only place in Europe where engineers can earn Bay Area salaries.
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- david927 9y agoYou are a recruiter, and that's a recruitment link.