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> First please note that America has fewer homeless people than many European nations or Canada Wow that's a real reality check right there. I would have never
by chrisseaton 5y ago
> First please note that America has fewer homeless people than many European nations or Canada
Wow that's a real reality check right there. I would have never guessed that Sweden had 2x the homeless of the US. Thank you.
- baby 5y agoSame with France. Lived there for most of my life and the US is a culture shock when it comes to homelessness. I’m confused by these numbers.
- mfer 5y agoIn some cities there are large concentrations of homeless people while in other parts of the country they are rare to encounter. Those large concentrations are regularly talked about by activists and the news media.
- axaxs 5y agoI think this is probably correct. The last time I've even seen an obviously homeless person was in SF, and I haven't been there in 2 years.
- handrous 5y agoI live in a purplish city in a reddish state that never makes national news for homelessness, and something's gotten way, way worse about homelessness in this city over the last decade. Even out in the 'burbs, where you never used to see homeless people. All over. I hear there are some long-term tent camps in parts of the city, too, which are new in the last couple years.
- nradov 5y agoThere have long been migrant camps around Calais filled with people trying to reach the UK. I don't know if they've ever been accurately counted. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-calais-idUSKBN24B1IN https://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-calais-id...
- gwright 5y agoI don't know how valid those stats are but those are per capita numbers not absolute numbers, so not twice as many total homeless: Sweden: 10,230,000/10,000*36 = 36,828 homeless US: 328,200,000/10,000*17 = 649,740 homeless
- chrisseaton 5y ago> those are per capita numbers not absolute numbers Of course they are. Why would you use anything else to compare countries?
- mistercool 5y agoI think the comment was in response to your phrasing: > 2x the homeless of the US. to me that reads as total homeless population, not a function of population.
- gwright 5y agoYour comment as written was unclear. I was trying to provide clarity.
- Overton-Window 5y agoFor comparison: there are single neighbourhoods in California with >36k homeless. Congregation is the real issue.
- cscurmudgeon 5y agoWe can flip that around and say US has much more housed people when you use absolute numbers.