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0 pointschinchilla20201y ago0 comments

It sounds like a definition/data-collection issue.

What are we calling 'unsheltered' versus 'homeless'?

America is full of oddballs who live #vanlife or couch surf or bounce between motels. Is that what we are calling 'unsheltered'?

> Every time I've seen statistics comparing, they disagree with your anecdote.

We both know the Churchill saying. Hard to parse the statistics you provided but what I am talking about is bona-fide homeless on the street that you walk past in the city. Not some Barista who is technically not on a lease but lives at her boyfriends house.

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swores1y ago

Please re-read my comment as it already addressed what you're talking about and shows the opposite to your claim. (I've just re-read what I wrote and think it's clear, but maybe I'm missing that the way I wrote something is only clear to me so feel free to ask if any of it doesn't seem to make sense.)

The stats in it differentiate between those two types of homelessness, and says that US is actually better than UK when counting "some Barista who is technically not on a lease but lives at her boyfriends house", however drastically worse for "bona-fide homeless on the street" (the official term for which is "unsheltered").

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