Can go right next to the trophy for highest incarceration rates.
USA! USA! USA!
If every church in America housed 2.5 unhoused people the crisis would be solved overnight.
Who am i kidding though, American churches don’t exist to help people they exist to
taxtithe peopleWhen I feed the poor, I’m called a Saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, I’m called a communist.
The quote is by a priest from South America. I think about that alot when I think about church.
To be fair, a lot of small community churches or other religious shelters seem to do a lot more than anyone else about the problem.
Churches are a social hate group. I love faith, especially when you have to do the spiritual work yourself, but organized faith corrupts the mind and soul.
Don’t worry, we have a fix for this.
We banned them from the streets.
Definitely a gross under count of the amount of homeless people. I’d imagine due to the government only counting occupied beds in shelters, the homeless they can physically count on one day, and not the number of incarcerated homeless. The amount is three times higher!
That’s not really how it works, the census bureau is extremely thorough - they send people into encampments regularly, work with homeless charities of all kinds, etc. These counts are estimates unless it’s a federal census year (when they absolutely do count every individual person that they possibly can), but they’re not going to be wildly inaccurate.
The much bigger issue is that these numbers appear to be limited to city limits or greater city area, and that’s where the discrepancy is gonna show up. Most homeless people dont live in cities, and camps are often established on conveniently unincorporated land so they dont have to be counted. Bureaucratic bastardry at its finest.
Not sure what your point is?
WE’RE NUMBER ONE! LETS GOOO!
$650k and still homeless. Housing market is out of control.
WHOOOO! USA #1!!!
It’ll get worse, so don’t go making any bets or anything. I know being an optimist is cool and all, but seriously.
In San Diego sure but what about the rest of the country?
Ouch. Just ouch.
See the guy in orange on the left?
Now, what are those toddlers dressed in fluo doing next to him?
