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Is There a Homeless Crisis?
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- rossdavidh 2y agoMy favorite part: "Anyway, though HUD collects these numbers, they don’t publish the data. However, they do publish reports, both or the entire nation, for individual states and for different local areas. So I did the sensible thing. I downloaded 7372 different .pdf files, wrote a script to convert each .pdf to plain text, wrote a parser for that text, compensated for 8 billion infuriating inconsistencies in how they do all the reports..."