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    [OC] Amerikas Obdachlose

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    1. throwaway823212 on

      It seems like this ought to be broken down by county or comparable smaller districts.

    3. 946stockton on

      You can buy a trailer in Mississippi with welfare money, low cost of living. Low homelessness.

    4. Popular_Try_5075 on

      A lot of states could eliminate homelessness by putting up 10k or less beds.

    6. italjersguy on

      There’s also the issue of reporting accuracy. I’d venture to guess there’s a lot of people living in tents and shacks in Alabama that might be considered homeless in NYC.

    7. trysoft_troll on

      How come the color variations are based on total population but the bubble size is just based on total homelessness in the city with no regard for its relationship to total population?

    8. CerealBowlOfPills on

      I wonder what’s the percentages between men vs women.

      And then by race.

    10. piratetone on

      Chicago has a lot of problems, but homelessness is much lower here than other major cities – it’s wild how few homeless there are in downtown Chicago compared to the west coast cities of LA, SF, Seattle, and East Coast spots like NY and Philly.

    14. LemmeGetAhhhhhhhhhhh on

      LA having about 80% as many homeless as New York despite being half the size is pretty crazy.

    17. SL3D on

      This also doubles as a map of states with cheapest to most expensive average housing rents

    19. DangerouslyCheesey on

      CA has a combination of mild weather, high income and generous resources/liberal politics. I can’t imagine trying to be homeless anywhere else

    20. tacticalcop on

      i live in a really rural cheap area. we still have homeless people wandering the streets, but instead these homeless have no hope of getting out. there are no services, there are no buses, there are no jobs, there is no help. one man even died in a house fire because his home was so destroyed, it was basically abandoned. RIP Moses.

      next time someone says they want to live in a rural area ‘because there’s no homeless’, good luck dodging the alcoholics wandering on the road while you’re driving home every day.

    21. pippybongstocking93 on

      If you’re homeless in a red state they just give you a bus ticket to a blue state. I live in Portland and most of the homeless aren’t from here

    23. Cute-Ad-3829 on

      Was not expecting Alaska to be that high. Homelessness there sounds like a whole different ball game.

    24. stupidshinji on

      This is very misleading for MS, as it has a lot of homeless people in Hattiesburg and Jackson (probably more than most cities their size). Homeless people travelling between Mobile/Birmingham and NOLA often get stuck in Hattiesburg. I can’t go to work, get gas, or groceries without seeing at least a handful of homeless people on my way there. I feel bad because the homeless population has skyrocketed since COVID, but we don’t have the infrastructure to provide them all food and shelter.

      The rest of MS is rural, so not nearly as many homeless people, which skews the data.

    25. purpleinme on

      Is part of California’s high homeless population due to weather too? I know if I was homeless I’d go there for perfect weather while living outside lol.

    26. Thetman38 on

      And here I thought homelessness in Orlando was bad. Didn’t even register

    27. daedulum on

      wow what a surprise that the places with the most population density also have higher numbers of homelessness. Maybe try a percent of total people there

    29. Financial-Band-4061 on

      I’m curious to know why St. Louis doesn’t have a dot. Seems like it would considering smaller cities like Omaha have a dot.

    30. NoBSforGma on

      What’s the source for this? How do we know that all the states are reporting using the same metrics?

    31. End3rWi99in on

      Homelessness is highest in places with the highest demand for homes. This tends to make sense. I was really hoping to see more of the post COVID boom of remote working that could ease up some of the localized demand and distribute it to other parts of the country, but that hasn’t really happened. Of course, remote work backslid quite a bit, and there are countless factors that go into why people live where they live.

    32. Corey307 on

      Things have gotten very, very bad in Vermont. We’re up small farm and tourist state with about 640,000 people living here. Jobs don’t pay much and rent has at least doubled since 2019 as has the cost of the average house. Combine that with very little new construction because of a lack of skilled trades people, ridiculous red tape and homes bought up by investors to rent out on Airbnb and VRBO means people don’t have anywhere to live. 

      The state government goes out of its way to dissuade industry from moving here. About the only new employer, we’ve had the past several years is beta technologies but they’re not employing a lot of locals, people are moving here to work there. I’m a transplant, but I came here before the pandemic, bought a house that had languished on the market. Now you’ve got people buying houses site unseen for 20% above asking.

      There was an influx of out-of-state homeless people during the pandemic because Vermont was putting people up in hotels for a few years. That program is gone. There’s currently about 1100 homeless families in the state so the state is retrofitting three old government buildings to house families. The cost is insane and most of it is going to private companies to operate these shelters. With the money, the state is spending they could build high density housing instead of putting some cots and old hotel furniture in a police barracks but here we are. 

    33. MaraxusUSMC on

      The fact that you don’t have a giant circle in Eugene, Oregon with the greatest number of homeless per capita makes me take this graph with a grain of salt.

    36. Themightysavage on

      How are there that many homeless in Alaska. Doesn’t the winter cold cull the herd?

    37. Daflehrer1 on

      I really wonder if this figure is even close to the real number of people without a home.

    38. Old_Captain_9131 on

      Democrats need to prove that they can govern a state properly first before taking up a nation.

    40. GreyCookieDough on

      Hmm… the homeless are clearly attracted to the salt water.

      Looking into this…

    41. Skibidi-Fox on

      You can live in a blue state but boy is it gonna cost ya 😑

    42. Detoxpain on

      Not that it’s easy to be homeless anywhere but it is generally less horrible to be so in a big city or a state with easier access to amenities or nicer weather, it’s why a lot of the homeless population migrate to the west coast or stay in cities.

    43. zdrums24 on

      People go where they can get the services they need. Cities set up services, so that’s where homeless people gather.

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