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I mean, there must be something seriously bad happening. Despite the economy supposedly booming, homeless populations around where I live are obviously skyrocke
by _yb2s 3y ago
I mean, there must be something seriously bad happening. Despite the economy supposedly booming, homeless populations around where I live are obviously skyrocketing.
What I also don't understand is that official statistics show maybe a ~20% homeless population increase in the last decade, and still a long term trend of big drops. Yet there are obviously 10-100x as many homeless as there were a decade ago in Northern California. It's so obvious that the statistics cannot possibly be even remotely correct... I've been living here and seen it happen first hand.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoWhat is not remotely correct is comparing local anecdotal statistics to unrelated national non anecdotal statistics.
- _yb2s 3y agoNo, I was looking up local statistics for the same areas where I have lived in Northern California. There is an order of magnitude or more discrepancy- something does not add up.
- lotsofpulp 3y agoI do not see the connection between homelessness and statistics showing economic booms. For example, 20% of people can be experiencing none of the economic gains. That is the problem with average statistics that do not show the change in distribution.
- _yb2s 3y agoExactly, that is the point....
- lotsofpulp 3y agoI wish data was published by decile instead of just mean or median averages. Another thing that confounds people is that they are comparing themselves to a certain socioeconomic class not well represented in the data. For example, if you are on this forum, you are probably in the socioeconomic class that works for well funded businesses, and own equity in the public markets, and even more so, equity in the most profitable portions of the public equity markets. That means if you are competing for goods and services (including land) with people who have those characteristics, then your perceived rate of inflation is going to be very different than someone who is competing with people in different socioeconomic classes. For example, a lifestyle that involves eating avocados regularly, flying at least a few times per year, and most importantly, buying land in a region where other people in the top 10% or 20% are also competing to buy land.
- mercutio2 3y agoThere are different kinds of homelessness. Sleeping rough is what you seem to be most sensitive to, but a lot of homelessness is crashing on friends’ couches and sleeping in cars.