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I'm from Austria and homelessness is a non-issue here. There's 15k homeless in the entire country. [0] I can't even remember the last time I saw a homeless per

I'm from Austria and homelessness is a non-issue here. There's 15k homeless in the entire country. [0] I can't even remember the last time I saw a homeless person in Vienna, a city of two million people. The reason it's like that is because we fixed the systemic issues that plague the US. [1] It's not my view of the world that's naive. It's yours that's overly cynical and that cynicism is holding your country back. [0] https://www.feantsa.org/download/austria-20178599194934673684360.pdf https://www.feantsa.org/download/austria-2017859919493467368... [1] https://crosscut.com/2017/06/homelessness-housing-crisis-seattle-vienna-solution https://crosscut.com/2017/06/homelessness-housing-crisis-sea...

willcipriano 5y ago
Factoring for population that's almost identical. 0.16% for Austria and 0.17% for the US, given my back of the envelope math and a quick Google search. You sure those systemic issues are fixed? edit: Numbers I used. Austria 8933346[0]/15000[1] - 0.16% US: 330000000[2]/580466[3] - 0.17% [0]https://www.migration.gv.at/en/living-and-working-in-austria/austria-at-a-glance/geography-and-population/ https://www.migration.gv.at/en/living-and-working-in-austria... [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596289 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596289 [2]https://www.census.gov/popclock/ https://www.census.gov/popclock/ [3]https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness-2021/ https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homeless...
- malermeister 5y ago
  Very interesting, I can't argue with your math, props to you! I have however lived in cities in both the US and Austria extensively and can anecdotally tell you the homelessness doesn't even compare. If all those numbers are correct, I would assume it's a distribution issue? Maybe there's a small percentage of homeless folks all over Austria, while they're a lot more segregated into certain cities in the US?
  - anovikov 5y ago
    Yes these are called sanctuary cities - liberal-ran cities where bosses just seem to love bums.

willcipriano 5y ago

Factoring for population that's almost identical. 0.16% for Austria and 0.17% for the US, given my back of the envelope math and a quick Google search. You sure those systemic issues are fixed? edit: Numbers I used. Austria 8933346[0]/15000[1] - 0.16% US: 330000000[2]/580466[3] - 0.17% [0]https://www.migration.gv.at/en/living-and-working-in-austria/austria-at-a-glance/geography-and-population/ https://www.migration.gv.at/en/living-and-working-in-austria... [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596289 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29596289 [2]https://www.census.gov/popclock/ https://www.census.gov/popclock/ [3]https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statistics/state-of-homelessness-2021/ https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homeless...

malermeister 5y ago
Very interesting, I can't argue with your math, props to you! I have however lived in cities in both the US and Austria extensively and can anecdotally tell you the homelessness doesn't even compare. If all those numbers are correct, I would assume it's a distribution issue? Maybe there's a small percentage of homeless folks all over Austria, while they're a lot more segregated into certain cities in the US?
- anovikov 5y ago
  Yes these are called sanctuary cities - liberal-ran cities where bosses just seem to love bums.