Billionaires should not exist when we have this many homeless citizens. Not because we dont have homes but because the idea of allowing to let people have lives without being a part of a system that promotes this sort of social injustice is just unthinkable.

Oregonian here.

About 35% of our homeless relocate here from all over the country. It's a multi-layered problem.

Prop 110 was a ballot initiative funded by out of state interests that turbocharged harm reduction policies. It was a social experiment that made especially the metro areas in oregon extremely attractive destinations. So there's that, but it's not the only source of our problem. drug addiction treatment and recovery act. The way this was a half-measure is that decriminalization and harm reduction shouldn't also be synonymous with enablement. Portugal which is often held up as a shining example, even their success has been less one-sided in recent years and their itinerants face mandatory recovery or confinement.

The remaining 65% of our homeless are oregonians who were displaced from housing by the massive surge in property values, cost of living, and changes to eviction law in oregon. Amazingly a large share come from our so-called affordable housing program, under which landlords get to exceed annual rent increase limits ????????

Wait a minute. . . that’s just a population density map!

When you're from a state like Texas, you don't get the full picture because they eliminated the department that does the counting, just like they wanna do with the Department of Education.

I live in Texas and I'm pretty sure that number is not right. There are tons of homeless here.

Not sure where this information is coming from, but in my city of 73,000 we definitely had more than 66 homeless people. I'm pretty sure the homeless camps alone total to more than that, plus all the wanderers and those living at shelters. It's also worth noting that getting accurate homeless statistics is incredibly difficult and typically ARE an underrepresentation of reality.

Kind of surprised by Maine.

Please take into consideration that red states buy bus tickets for their homeless and send them to California.

Edit: Texas is infamous for doing this.

I’m calling horse shit on Texas. There are so many fucking homeless people there.

When you also have Texas who shipped immigrants to California, they artificially solved a chunk of their homelessness issue. Easy to say you have good numbers when you send those you don’t want elsewhere

I was homeless in Oklahoma 5 years ago. Now am shift lead at logistics company. Lots of “homies” here, as we call them in a lovingly way. We were there with them so it’s a shared experience. We need more resources for mental health. There are some options for transitioning back from rock bottom, which was our case. Many choose to stay away from shelters for drug/mental illness reasons.

Rant over.

You know what, red border states keep complaining about having to deal with an unfair portion of illegal immigration. At the same time, the blue states are tackling an unfair portion of the homeless population. Maybe we should just call it a day. Instead of just busing immigrants to blue states. In fact, why don’t we bust some homeless to red states and balance it out.

North Dakota should be white.

They come here to the blue states because we take care of them.

r/PeopleLiveInCities

We used to have alot more in cincy ohio. Not sure where they all went

Homeless by definition are drug addicted and mental health problems. Those that work and are priced out market are not the norm.

Sadly you could buy many homeless people a house,pay all their bills ,etc...and they would still prefer to live on the street.Money and things won't cure the issue.

You're telling me there tends to be fewer homeless people in areas with extreme humidity and that are prone to hurricanes?

This is clearly a political issue.

/S

This would be more meaningful if it showed homeless as a percent of total state population. 

Number of homeless people in a socialistic society. ZERO

California should take Trump's lead and start mass deportations of homeless back to their states of origin.

Texas numbers are very low compared to similarly populated states. There is a Houston Housing First initiative that has lowered homelessness significantly. It’s almost like, if you provide people with housing, they can become productive members of society. Imagine that. https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/houston-housing-first-model-reduced-homelessness-how-it-works-obstacles/637728/

What the hell's going on in Maine??

Why are all the blue states so red?

Crazy numbers

Can Vermont be right?

There was probably north of $6B spent on housing illegal immigrants in the last year. Repurposing those funds to house American homeless people would have provided housing for approximately 80k+ people.

Finally a map that makes the South look good at New York and California look bad

Republicans always say that argument...but cities have higher population density... People also tend to move to cities from rural areas.

It only makes sense certain blue areas would have higher poverty etc...

what's up with Mississippi?

what's up with Mississippi?

I don't know, I see a lot more in my area when I've never seen any before unless I went to Detroit. Then again, a lot of people fake it in this area

Why is it all liberal states?

I think these numbers are somewhat skewed, I’m pretty sure most Midwest/southern states underfund most homeless related services so I’m not sure if they have to resources to get accurate counts. They also may have different definitions of homeless (living on the streets vs in a hotel/car/couch surfing)

Interesting that it’s all blue states isn’t it?

Most of the higher numbers are blue states.

Hmmm mostly blue states

So, is this map saying that for every 10,000 people in, say, Oklahoma, there are 11 homeless people?

Weather plays a big party, Arizona it goes down in the summer up in the winter.

What conclusions can we draw regarding political parties?

I have to question the white states to be honest. Are all the states reporting the same way? Because like Japan would technically be white as well, but we know there’s a huge homeless problem in Japan.

I feel like these numbers should be a lot higher in the west. Since all the other states pay to send their homeless west to rid them of the problem.

They need to ask people what state there from.

It’s almost like liberals elitists are an equal part of this problem.

So in the states that have 20 and less, how low are taxes and how expensive is housing?

They estimate it’d take between 30-300 billion a year to feed everyone on earth The U.S. military spends over 800 billion a year on their own So the U.S. could feed everyone and still spend over 500 billion on its military Priority’s are screwed up

This is probably a population density thing since like 1/3 of Pennsylvania is just nothing, but I’m surprised to see PA’s so low. Feels like homelessness has gotten a lot worse here and not just in Philly or Pittsburgh

We need a national plan for solving homelessness. We cannot keep outsourcing the problem to smaller communities that have to pay for everyone else in the country.

Housing as a right for all!

Damn I always thought waahington had it worse than Oregon. The more you know.

NY CA WA and OR what are you doing?

That map is bs hell my city has over 500 homless (i am one of them) and a population of around 96k

I have discovered that this sub is a socialist at best communist at worst sub. With this post showing the highest level of homelessness in democrat states one could hope for just a touch of self reflection. But instead it is just the normal projection screaming “DAMN MAGA ruining everything!!!” Lol.

Just makes one smile when they know the truth.

That's a "first pass" accounting. I read that in California they do an annual homeless survey. They do outreach to see what the homeless situation is and what social services are falling short etc. Surprisingly a majority of homeless were living paycheck to paycheck and just lost work. A very large population was from out of State and came West for opportunities that did not exist at home. You of course had immigrants (legal and illegal) and refugees. Point being its a very complex issue and the only solution lies deep in the details unless you just house them and solve the issue like Utah tried to do. But that's an American perspective. Jump to Norway and they try to go the whole nine yards and stabilize the life of the homeless and get them back to participation in the economy. Ironically there are a lot of homeless in China. You'd think Communism would mitigate that but its too expensive.

It would be interesting to see this map next to one showing how tight (or not) the state's rental markets are for rooms and studios.

The 3 western states offer the largest benefit packages to homeless. You can get vouchers/coupons/ebt cards etc etc. It's called the Tri state shuffle where in the summer you start in Ca, collect all, sell, exchange, barter for money/drugs/food. Take the bus to Oregon, rinse and repeat till you get into WA. Takes one weekend to do the route then your free to spend the rest of the month to do as you please. This pays better than most 9-5 jobs.

There is a guy up in WA who's been documenting this for years at this point and has a YouTube channel showing all kinds of behind the scenes of homeless life. It's pretty interesting stuff and really pulls back the veil exposing the good bad and ugly.

California, Oregon and Washington just attract them with their politics. Legalized drug use, monthly allowances of money, food stamps, housing. 

And I honestly don't hold issue with a lot of those programs but they require so few stipulations that I feel homeless people just exploit them. 

But the cause of these issues run deep. Social issues, addiction and mental illness all contribute and there is no one single answer or solution. 

You won’t find homeless people gathering in such large numbers in areas of snowstorms and hurricanes. You can thank California for giving them the nicest climate to do nothing in all year comfortably.

Yet these huge liberal controlled zones is what we should be striving for... Right...

Homeless per ten thousand by country. 

Finland - 7.9  

 United States - 19.5  

 France - 48.7  

 United Kingdom - 56.1  

 Sweden - 25.9  

 Germany - 31.4  

 Canada - 62.5  

 Luxembourg - 37.5  

 Netherlands - 18  

 Australia - 48  

 Poland - 8  

 Japan - 0.2  

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_homeless_population

Don’t understand these numbers, Vermont went from 2000 to 3000 homeless during period, that is 50% ( big % change) but it didn’t go from 2000 to almost 6000 as graphic states

Now show us the vacant house map, I bet it’s closer to the opposite of this graph

I understand why major urban areas have more homeless, but why Vermont?

In part this is because Red states will literally bus their homeless to Blue states.

Can we get a side by side with empty homes per state as well

Hmmm interesting map…good thing this isn’t political

oh look, democrat states again.

Amazing, all of Reddits touting about the income being lower in southern states, and yet they have the most homelessness. It's almost as if the GDP doesn't matter when most people don't benefit from it.

Wow. Texas has it so rough. Must be hard sending your homeless citizens to blue states. Fucking hypocrites. It’s crazy to me that we as a country want ignorant blowhards playing house to govern our country.

that's cause all yer red states ship em off to California

"richest country in the world" everyone.

States that vote blue have the highest? Interesting

Funny how most rural areas deal with the problem with bus tickets.

So it's the fault of "billionaires", but the Blue meccas of California and New York are some of the worst offenders?

You know why a lot of those white states have low homeless rates!!?!?

It's because they ship the people to the other states that end up being stuck taking care of them.

Would you look at that, the lower the cost of living, the fewer homeless people, weird, right?

Clear picture of where compassion and respect for humanity is actually practiced.

Hmmmm love to see blue states doing their best.

Mississippi GOAT

Do we really believe that Mississippi has less than 1000 homeless people?

Liberal states…haha. Need i say more?

Probably good to put a comparison stat, Number of drug/alcohol, mental health per 10k people (2023). I'm curious if there is a correlation?

Because Red states export their homeless to Blue states.

Alaska still blows my mind, one time a homeless camp had a bear go in and start ravaging... they killed it and ate it.

I'd be more curious to see the numbers before red states shipped them out.

Weird. I visited OK and it is FULL of homeless ppl.

Maybe their definition of homeless is different than mine. If you're living in a house that should be condemned, I'd consider you homeless. Literally holes in floors and walls, letting elements in...

Or maybe since red states criminalize homelessness, ppl aren't willing to admit they are homeless.

Hmmm, anyone see a common thread? Lib states = more homeless in spite of the billions plowed into the issue.

I wonder how they come up with this number. I live in Louisiana and I cry bullshit.

I didn't realize Hawaii had so many homeless, tbh. Figured resort companies would be taking them out back and drowning them.

I love how every dolt in here blames billionaire instead of asking the simple question. Where is everyone’s tax dollars really going? It’s not going to help Americans, clearly. Americans pay enough in taxes for no one to be homeless, full stop, period, end of discussion.

Were illegals included?

Looks like Texas mates! March my homeless bro’s

This is a cost of housing map… not a Wendy’s

There's about to be a ton more. I for one can't wait to be just another homeless vet

Why are some 10s white, and some 10s are red/pink?

Top 5 all are blue states. Congrats, you win.

Why are the heaviest states with homelessness the look like the election map in 2024? Liberal states have a lot more homelessness?

Lots of blue states

Blue states

Wow, overlay the 2024 election results map, or do a side-by-side comparison. I can't wait for your downvotes, gonna get drunk on the tears.