Cities reporting increases in unhoused people include Seattle, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Philadelphia and Miami
    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 month ago

      Don’t worry the states are working on that as fast as they can. They’re making it a civil fine to “camp” in the wrong spot. Then you also get relocated to a shelter that has a limit on what you can bring in, including a ban on animals. If you resist at any point you end up in prison. So you have to just take losing your only companion and half of your belongings in stride. Also though, if you go to prison you lose all of your stuff. So they release you thirty days later (in the blue states) and your penniless, your dog has hopefully been adopted by someone else, and you have no clothes to survive extreme weather or any other property you need to function. So you can either die in the middle of the night to cold weather or take up that drug dealer on his offer of employment. Which ends up with a larger prison sentence down the road.

      The fact that people don’t see this cycle is infuriating to me. All they see is a sidewalk that doesn’t have tents anymore and they cheer. They don’t care that they’ve permanently destroyed the lives of everyone who lived there.

      • pbbananaman@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 month ago

        There’s plenty of shelter space but you can’t do drugs there so people don’t go. But hey I guess you can use as much as you want in prison!

        • DempstersBox@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 month ago

          You have no idea what you’re talking about.

          I’ve been homeless, and staying the fuck away from the shelters is how you stay safe.

          I spent one night in one once, and promptly went back to looking for hidden little spots where no one would be able to see me.

          Unless you are the crustiest of old homebums, shelters are where your shit gets stolen and you get stabbed if you make a fuss. Or raped.

        • Maggoty@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 month ago

          No there isn’t actually. The recent SCOTUS case was literally repealing a past ruling that you couldn’t do what I described above, until there was enough shelter space for all the homeless in your city/county/state.

          So that’s why enforcement suddenly got juiced. They no longer need a bed available to fuck your shit up.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    36·
    1 month ago

    It’s pretty cool how the richest nation in the history of the world can’t take care of people. /s

  • Dearth@lemmy.world
    31·
    1 month ago

    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 tax tithe people

    • Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world
      34·
      1 month ago

      When 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.

    • BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 month ago

      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.

      • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
        5·
        1 month ago

        Debatable.

        I work for a church. We do a LOT for the community. Free lunches under the bridge. Park clean ups every season. After school programs for kids.

        But in no way are we even close to doing as much good as actual organized programs that have real leadership and get funding.

    • Pilferjinx@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 month ago

      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.

    • CO5MO ✨@midwest.social
      8·
      1 month ago

      650k people are homeless. Has nothing to do w housing market or salary.

      “Data collected and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal from more than 250 homeless organizations have counted at least 550,000 homeless people so far, a 10 percent rise from last year’s reports. The numbers gathered from cities and rural areas show homelessness as it was on a single night earlier this year.

      The upward trend means that the US will probably reach and pass the 2023 estimate of 653,000 homeless people. It’s the highest number since the government began sharing such data in 2007.”

      • Voytrekk@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 month ago

        I was confused by the title at first too. It should probably be “US is on track to set a new record for homelessness with over 650K people living on the streets”.

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
    27·
    1 month ago

    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!

  • GHiLA@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    1 month ago

    It’ll get worse, so don’t go making any bets or anything. I know being an optimist is cool and all, but seriously.

  • needanke@feddit.org
    9·
    1 month ago

    So like 1 in 50 500 pll is homeless? That’s crazy. Ther is not even a significant crisis or war directly affecting the US.

    Edit: I can’t read

    Edit II : OK, reading was fine (on the first go) I just did my math with 1million = 100* thousand … I am tired and have a cold, please excuse my many fumbles in this comment xD.

    • Throw_away_migrator@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 month ago

      I think you’re off by a factor of 10. 650k out of 330 million is about 1 in 500. It’s still way too many people, don’t get me wrong, just wanted to clarify.