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Re:How America Manufactures Poverty by onlyonhckrnws on Sunday March 19, 2023 @12:32AM (#35216052)
Only on Hacker News can you have an article detailing the systematic ways in which America holds people in poverty and have someone respond with a 30-year old anecdote about how great America is. Thanks for reminding me that 30% of this site is never, ever, ever going to grasp the concept of class consciousness.

Here's to a sad shout-out to the ever rapidly increasingly incidence of single-family homelessness in the United States, apparently there's an escalating drug use (or whatever you're handwavedly referring to) problem that perfectly coincides with decades of deregulation and defunding of education and social welfare systems, not to mention extreme corporate monopolization and inflation.

America is not yet a third world country, and thus we must ignore documented, systematic failures. Apparently.

Re:How America Manufactures Poverty by greatwave1 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @01:19AM (#35216278)
> Here's to a sad shout-out to the ever rapidly increasingly incidence of single-family homelessness in the United States

Can you provide any evidence that single-family homelessness is rapidly increasing in the United States? Everything I'm seeing is showing that it has been trending downwards over the last decade.

One example: https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homeless...