I assume that number doesn’t cover people living in cars, hotels, and couch-surfing?
According to HUD It’s only measuring those in “shelters, temporary housing, and unsheltered settings”
And even those metrics are most likely underestimated
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does not include those staying with friends or family because they do not have a place of their own
And anyone not literally counted by the census takers I assume.
pretty sure it doesn’t
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Locally, sleeping rough means you don’t have a car, not couch surfing etc. When I say homeless, people assume I have a car for some reason
It’s headlines like this one that make me want to start throwing stuff whenever someone makes the argument that the left is undermining the democrats by refusing to be satisfied with whatever crumbs they’re throwing us this week. Everyone knows the Republicans suck, so criticizing the one party that still pretends to be accountable to its ostensible constituents for not doing enough to help those constituents should be a reasonable thing to do. The only rub here is that the Democratic leadership does not want to actually help, does not want to be held accountable, and doesn’t want to be criticized, and so they’ve managed to convince their followers that reflecting on what’s actually happening to society’s most vulnerable is treasonous empowerment of the Republicans, who are the enemy but also reasonable people whom we still need to work with.
Nothing here is new, I’m just updating everyone on my slow slide into incoherence as I continue to gaze into the abyss.
No no, this is a helpful compression
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Now if we can just keep this rate up there will be 770000*1.181^76 = 238 billion homeless Americans by end of century. Matt Yglesias will be pleased
Thank you for doing data driven analysis
Matt Yglesias should be crushed by a hydraulic press
Quoting the article:
“No American should face homelessness, and the Biden-Harris Administration is committed to ensuring every family has access to the affordable, safe, and quality housing they deserve,” HUD Agency Head Adrianne Todman said in a statement, adding that the focus should remain on “evidence-based efforts to prevent and end homelessness.”
Have they forgotten that the Biden-Harris Administration was (and still is), the one in charge ?
How does such an increase in homelessness show the commitment they said they have on fixing this issue ? It obviusly shows the opposite, that they don’t care about it.Is this really where journalism is at !?
I can’t believe Trump would do this. His 8 years in the White House has been a disaster, and it’s only going to get worse over the next 4 years.
nobody remembers President Arthur
But I was told to look at the graphs and see how good everything is. I wonder if the graphdorks will look at this one, or if they have some bs reason to dismiss this one like they do with all the other ones they don’t like.
the graphdorks look at this one and conclude since economy go up that these are 770,000 cases of parallel yet unrelated individual failures
the graphdorks
My go-to lib graphdork is an obnoxious turbolib named Will Stancil. I assume he must argue with leftists almost every single day on Twitter and/or Bluesky. He can’t help himself.
I changed the order so it’s Reddit-like and his comment is effectively a reply.
Is homelessness not part of “the economy” in this formulation? Like, a large increase in homelessness is a part of the economic picture. To act like “the economy” can be walled off from homelessness is pretty crazy in my opinion.
It absolutely is part of the economy. And a large increase in homelessness is bad. But this is a fraction of a percent of the population - even a fraction of a percent of the LOW-INCOME population. So it doesn’t tell you much about the larger economy standing alone. We have broader measures for that
https://subium.com/profile/whstancil.bsky.social/post/3lecs4faat22t
God, what a ghoul he is. “Homelessness is bad but…” I’d poke at him but I can’t. The day Steve Albini died - Stancil said something like he was “grief-stricken”. It seemed like a lie to me so I replied with something like “Do you mean that? Or did you say it for street cred?” And he blocked me within a few minutes.
The day he lost that election was a great day
:)
I love his bio…
Minnesota guy
I wonder if it means his hopes to be in elected office are crushed. I fucking hope so.
Wow I knew things were getting worse but that’s a staggering figure.
People have lost their minds justifying this system
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At first I thought you meant North Korea. Wonder how it’s doing over there.
Ignoring the fact that most burger brains would see this as propaganda, not having a McMansion is a fate worse than death.
This, I believe, is why the housing crisis in America will never be solved- an epidemic of greed that affects everyone from parasitic billionaires to median wage earners with a desire to reach the next level in the rat race
Clearly this has nothing to do with housing affordability.
libs saving these statistics for January 20th when the economy is bad again.
Even in terms of per-capita that’s really bad
Since 2020, my local food bank has gone from free food, to rate limiting families to a set quantity of food per month, to now means-testing applicants to receive food after the end of this month.
But did you know!!! The 0.01% have tripled their net worth since then! The economy is THRIVING! GDP!!!
We did it, reddit.
That comes out to 245 people per county on average. and that 770k figure is from Jan of 2024
