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Anecdote warning: My experience living in a city with a non-trivial homeless population is most homeless -- at least the visible ones -- are predominantly able
by barbacoa 5y ago
Anecdote warning:
My experience living in a city with a non-trivial homeless population is most homeless -- at least the visible ones -- are predominantly able-body young men (and increasing women too) in their 20-30s. We're not talking factory workers who got laid off after 15 years due to outsourcing. They strike me more like urban, drug addled version of Chris McCandless from 'into the wild'.
Of course this experience may not reflect other regions.
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- throw_m239339 5y agoWe all personally know outliers. It changes nothing to the statistics. As people of science on HN, we must not rely on narratives, this is the sort of thing the grand parent is pushing, associating homelessness with laziness in a cunning fashion. This is a mostly a lie.