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Significantly higher if perusing this wikipedia article is anything to go by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness#Statistics_for_developed_countries htt
by Andaith 13y ago
Significantly higher if perusing this wikipedia article is anything to go by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness#Statistics_for_developed_countries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness#Statistics_for_de...
UK: about 10K
USA: about 650k
USA has about 6 times UK population, so if their populations were equal the UK would have about 60K, or one tenth of the problem.
Note: This is just guesswork just perusing that article and taking guesses at populations(60mil and 330mil). Also, it looks like countries define homelessness slightly differently, but I don't have time to read through that part of it now, so I'm bookmarking it for later.
- Andrew_Quentin 13y agoThe next question is, why is it so much higher in America? Homelessness is a moral as well as practical problem. How can more than half a million people have no home in the richest country on earth?
- unwind 13y agoWasn't the point of the grand parent's post that, per capita, it isn't higher in the US as compared to the UK?
- arethuza 13y agoUK: 10K USA: 650k - US has 6 times the population of the UK so it look like the problems is ~10 times worse in the US.
- brazzy 13y agoBecause (most of) the people of the richest country on earth believe that any form of tax-financed welfare is "socialism", which is evil, and the only reason they're the richest country on earth is diligent avoidance of "socialism".