Re:The lessons from America’s astonishing economic record
by bugglebeetle on Monday April 17, 2023 @02:47AM
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I just looked up the math and this is probably right. It looks like 1 in 3 Americans live in a city of >100K people, which, again, just in my experience, is where you’d be hard pressed to not encounter a homeless person. This however probably skews higher when we factor in things like working age adults vs the total population.
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Re:The lessons from America’s astonishing economic record
by bobthepanda on Monday April 17, 2023 @03:39AM
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If you are American, live and work in the suburbs, it is fairly easy to avoid homelessness from the inside of a personal vehicle.
Re:The lessons from America’s astonishing economic record
by JohnBooty on Monday April 17, 2023 @11:51AM
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Even within large cities that have many homeless people, the homeless are not evenly distributed. Police often keep them out of "desirable" shopping and business areas, and homeless often cluster in camps.
I'm most familiar with Philadelphia where you'll either see multiple homeless people every day... or rarely. Depends on where you live and work. Every other city I've been to in my life seems similar.
Anyway, I don't want to get too far in the weeds with my nitpickery. I don't even remember what we were originally talking about!