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> (If you really want to get depressed, look at European cities like Amsterdam or Berlin which have homelessness rates approaching double most US cities' and ev
by generic92034 3y ago
> (If you really want to get depressed, look at European cities like Amsterdam or Berlin which have homelessness rates approaching double most US cities' and even higher expenditures.)
Could you please provide some links to those figures? The last figures about homelessness in Berlin I know were below 2000 individuals [1], which does not strike me as shockingly high. But things might have changed.
[1]: https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1097522/umfrage/anzahl-der-obdachlosen-in-berlin/ https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1097522/umfra...
- bandrami 3y ago2000 is the population of the city's shelters; the rough sleeping population was about 10K the last time they counted (right before the pandemic). And remember that's a much narrower definition of "homeless" than the US uses.