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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by Matticus_Rex on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @04:52PM (#42322438)
> The U.S. is filled with homeless people. Even Italy, which was doing economically terrible when I visited, didn’t even have a fraction of the homelessness problem as in the U.S.

Interestingly, these are not unrelated. Italy's housing prices are very low because of how badly it's doing economically.

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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by mattigames on Thursday December 05, 2024 @01:24AM (#42325514)
If so then its better if it did worse economically until homelessness becomes zero or close enough.
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Re:Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals by Matticus_Rex on Thursday December 05, 2024 @07:54AM (#42327757)
Not that closely related. Much of homelessness is still not a housing price issue, and housing price issues are partially but not completely remediated by a contraction in the economy.

And also... no -- homelessness is one bad problem, but there are other problems. Bad economies cause a myriad, including declining healthcare availability and reductions in life expectancy.

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