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Betteridge's law of headlines says there isn't.
And of course, the law holds true here. There is a crisis in some parts of the US but overall, the homeless rate has been relatively stable.
LA, Portland & SF– are obviously measurably worse over the past decade. Portland is a case of going from beautiful downtown to cesspool in that timeframe.
There are a lot of reasons that stats are misleading. Noise in the data, biases, trivial statistics, incorrect measurement, poor geographic approaches.
Please don't sit at your desk and tell me what I see out my window doesn't exist.
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Can you please not post unsubstantive comments to HN? We're trying for higher-quality discussion, to the extent that that's possible on the internet. This is particularly important when a thread is fresh because threads are so sensitive to initial conditions. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
So you'll allow a title that ask a question.. and then someone answers it and you have an issue with their answer? How do you pretend to claim to know that there isn't a homeless criss?
Surely it isn't hard to understand that "Yes. Yes there is." is an unsubstantive comment. This is not a borderline call.
Another attempt to convince you that your personal observations must be incorrect because someone found a stat from a study somewhere. LA, Portland & SF– are obviously measurably worse over the past decade. Portland is a case of going from beautiful downtown to cesspool in that timeframe. There are a lot of reasons that stats are misleading. Noise in the data, biases, trivial statistics, incorrect measurement, poor g…
Excellent breakdown of data on homeless populations across the US. It could use a better title. This is worth looking at. It is not your usual opinion piece on the topic. It's all data and it's very good.
(Submitted title was "Is there a homelessness crisis?")
We're a country of 350,000,000 people. Leaving 500,000 outside simply because municipalities don't want them around is inexcusable. Solution in two parts 1. Make it legal to build homes where people live (looking at you California, specifically LA, SF, SV) 2. Build dorm style shelters for anyone that would otherwise sleep outside There's complicating issues like not enough addiction treatment and mental health facili…
Where do you build these dorms?
Are there barriers to living in these dorms? Sobriety requirements, job searching, etc?
We should definitely try to solve this but I don't think it is simple at all.
Another attempt to convince you that your personal observations must be incorrect because someone found a stat from a study somewhere. LA, Portland & SF– are obviously measurably worse over the past decade. Portland is a case of going from beautiful downtown to cesspool in that timeframe. There are a lot of reasons that stats are misleading. Noise in the data, biases, trivial statistics, incorrect measurement, poor g…
I don’t doubt what you’re seeing. But that only tells a very specific story in the bigger picture.
Another attempt to convince you that your personal observations must be incorrect because someone found a stat from a study somewhere. LA, Portland & SF– are obviously measurably worse over the past decade. Portland is a case of going from beautiful downtown to cesspool in that timeframe. There are a lot of reasons that stats are misleading. Noise in the data, biases, trivial statistics, incorrect measurement, poor g…
Another attempt to convince you that your personal observations must be incorrect because someone found a stat from a study somewhere. LA, Portland & SF– are obviously measurably worse over the past decade. Portland is a case of going from beautiful downtown to cesspool in that timeframe. There are a lot of reasons that stats are misleading. Noise in the data, biases, trivial statistics, incorrect measurement, poor g…