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Well, other developed countries don't have so many homeless people, so that should be less of a problem there.

• briandear 9y ago
  > other developed countries don't have so many homeless people Not true. Here are per-night homeless statistics from UN: China has 2.6 million Russia has 5 million Ukraine 1 million Germany 860,000 US has 554,000 ... But more profoundely, by homeless ratio, the US is not even close. Germany, New Zealand, Czech Republic, Canada, the UK, Australia, Sweden, Luxembourg, Croatia, Bosnia, Russia, Peru France, Austria, the Netherlands, China and Greece -- ALL have higher homeless ratios than the United States. The US is in 33rd place for overall worldwide homelessness as a percentage of the population.
  • aleyan 9y ago
    Can you please link to "per-night homeless statistics from UN" source that you mentioned? I can't not find it through a little googling. 5 million figure for Russia for example appears on wikipedia [1] where it is cited from IB Times[2]. IB Times[2] cites Homeless World Cup[3] as the source. Homeless World Cup[3] cites the original IB Times[2] article as the source for the 5 million number! This was the first number I investigated and it already seems super suspect. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_... [2] http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/homeless-day-2014-new-york-manila-among-cities-most-people-living-streets-1469288 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/homeless-day-2014-new-york-manila-a... [3] https://homelessworldcup.org/homelessness-statistics/ https://homelessworldcup.org/homelessness-statistics/
  • drcross 9y ago
    The US seems to have a higher rate of people sleeping rough than any other country outside of, possibly, Sri Lanka.
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