US homeless population has been steadily dropping for decades, likely even longer if you dig for data. Here's recent numbers [1]. It's also an outlier on the co

US homeless population has been steadily dropping for decades, likely even longer if you dig for data. Here's recent numbers [1]. It's also an outlier on the condition of how a person in the US is faring. Taking that as evidence for how people live overall is as reasonable as pointing to the top 0.1% and claiming all is well. Neither gives as accurate a picture as a median. The median is simply much more indicative of how Americans fare. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/555795/estimated-number-of-homeless-people-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/555795/estimated-number-...