Message from @Jab
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It's logical
a crime for being homeless or something?
```Kitty and her 34-year-old daughter, Sura, who I met on a side street in Hollywood, saw California as a respite from difficult times.
Originally from Nevada, they moved first to Idaho, where they lost their jobs, and then to Arizona and eventually to California hoping to "start over".
Sura, who is transgender, says they choose to stay in Hollywood because the local LGBT centre is "really great".
Weather-beaten by the intense California sun, they live under canvas by night and spend time in local libraries during the day, mainly so that they can charge their mobile phones.
But living on the streets was never part of the plan.```
58k homeless in LA
It wouldn't sound unfair to suggest that a lot of poverty has to do with the cycle of attitude when it comes to government assistance and poor parenting, more from the state than the parents.
Let's see what the total population is..
four million
so 58,000 is bad, but as a percentage that's pretty small
I think that the LA & San Francisco has to do with a lot more than partisan talking points.
0.145%
sorry, 0.0145%
It's in large due to the culture surrounding the views on poverty and progress.
wouldn't be surprised if the majority of them are located in only a handful of locations though
```The highest rates of homelessness among states are in Hawaii (465 per 100,000), followed by New York (399) and California (367). The lowest homeless counts per capita come in Mississippi (81 per 100,000), Indiana (94) and Kansas (94).```
Nobody wants to live in Kansas
homeless problem: *solved*
Kansas City is in MISSOURI
😛
IIRC it was a war that actually did this
i think Civil War?
(Looks it up)
Homeless people in the US are also of a much wider range of people, compared to countries with more universal welfare states.
Yeah
Not a huge majority of the mentally ill, like in countries with universal welfare states.
> Kansas tied for minimal homelessness
> Tornado country
🤔
oh god I knew someone would go there
How are the insurance prices for housing in areas like that?
Asking because I'm curious, and don't live anywhere near a place where such things as hurricanes and tornados appear.
I'm in NorthEast Texas
Our cost of living is so low
A city near my city, Azle, Texas is even lower.
The growth of population in the state of Texas in the previous decades are in large part thanks to the cost of living.
Turns out taxing people less and letting do what they want costs everyone less money and stimulates growth
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