The Homeless

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Over half a million Americans are currently homeless. After a period of progress and decline, the U.S. homeless population has increased slightly in 2020 and 2022, according to a report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The 2021 numbers were affected by shelters lowering capacity due to the Covid-19 pandemic during the count that takes places in the first month(s) of every year. It now stands at 582,462 individuals with two thirds living in shelters. While the number of sheltered individuals in 2022 approached the 2020 pre-pandemic level again, the increase in the nation's homeless is primarily due to a rise in the unsheltered homeless population.

Around half of all unsheltered homeless people in the U.S. are located in California. The rates of unsheltered homeless populations are also high in other states on the West Coast. Tent cities are common occurrences in these states as a result of the growing unsheltered homeless populations. This very visible symptom of homelessness has proven divisive, and while some cities have embraced designated areas for camping as a solution for unsheltered people, others have recently cracked down on encampments, for example Sacramento, San Jose and Oakland.

Half of the U.S. homeless population is scattered across the country's 50 biggest cities and their surrounding areas. 22 percent of them live in just two cities - New York and Los Angeles. ...

Infographic: The U.S. Cities With the Most Homeless People

This chart shows CoCs with the largest numbers of people experiencing homelessness in 2022.

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[Goldhedge]

This came to mind...

Do Re Mi - Woody Guthrie​

 

[Casey Jones]

Hegalian dialect.

CREATE the problem, with money-printing and directing the gusher of seigniorage at politically-connected Elites. Who then rush to buy up properties, knowing, with more money-printing, their assets will rise in value.

The average hovel becomes unaffordable to the average non-politically-connected worker bee.

Now, we gonna get government to FIX it all, with 15-Minute Cities and homes made out of Chinese shipping containers.

 

[searcher]

Posted as a human-interest story.

Homeless man who built £300 shed under Battersea Bridge says: 'I'm living the dream'​

A homeless man said he is “living his dream” after building a shed next to the Thames where he enjoys waterside views. Shahoo Amini, 43, originally from Iran, built the structure under Battersea Bridge for less than £300. His neighbours in Cheyne Walk have paid upwards of £3m for their apartments overlooking the river.

Among the rich and famous living nearby are Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger and rocker Bryan Adams.

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[nickndfl]

Most of the homeless I encounter are homeless by choice.

 

[searcher]

Homeless build house with garden, barbecue and working electricity alongside LA freeway​

Fake it till you make it.

Homeless Californians built a house complete with rock walls, a garden, a barbecue grill, a hammock, decorative string lights, potted plants and working electricity on a strip of land wedged between a busy freeway and the Arroyo Seco in Los Angeles.

The impressive and seemingly sturdy structure stands out among the dozens of makeshift shelters, tents and tarps that those without a home have constructed along the drainage basin, as filmed by local news station KTLA.

The number of encampments built above the “dry river” has increased in recent years as 46,000 Los Angeles residents are experiencing homelessness, the station reported.

The people who live in the makeshift home on the edge of the 110 freeway would not speak to the station, but neighbors who did gave mixed reactions.

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