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Long term homelessness comes down to mental health, substance abuse, or both – not what many men are looking for in a domestic partner.

• johnnyanmac 2y ago
  Sure. I'm just explaining why more men are homeless than women: >Sixty-seven percent of all people experiencing homelessness within the 2018 Point-in-Time (PiT) Count are individuals. There are 260,284 men compared to 106,119 women. Thus, men are the majority of individuals experiencing homelessness (70 percent) followed by women (29 percent). https://endhomelessness.org/demographic-data-project-gender-and-individual-homelessness/ https://endhomelessness.org/demographic-data-project-gender-... From what I see, there is no state that skews so far that women are even close to a majority. The worst cases still almost have a supermajority of homeless men.
  • acdha 2y ago
    Oh, sure, I think the disparity is real. I just don’t think it’s because otherwise equal men and women are cohabiting at different rates - I’d look more at things like the disparate rates of imprisonment (itself a complex problem) or how things like substance abuse patterns or social behaviors affect someone’s ability to stay housed. To be clear, I think those are all real problems, all hard to solve, and we should be doing a lot better at them. I just don’t think gender _explains_ homelessness as much as it correlates with some of the root causes.