Cities partially just make the poverty more visible. There's extreme deep wells of poverty all over the country, it's just more spread out so it goes unnoticed.

Cities partially just make the poverty more visible. There's extreme deep wells of poverty all over the country, it's just more spread out so it goes unnoticed. In a city with tight space though the homeless get pushed together with the rest of society so they get noticed more. Cities do exacerbate it some because of tight housing supply and cost where other places poverty means they might just have a really bad house in the city there's not the space for it. It is also partially self feeding because there's just a lack of services for the homeless/poor outside of big cities and because cities are booming and productive there's just a lot of extra that can support a homeless person than in a rural or small town.