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Where The Homeless Are (And Are Not)
With food-stamp recipients dominated by 'working age Americans' for the first time in history; and 1.4 million having recently dropped off the benefits rolls, we suspect, extremely sadly, that the following breakdown of homelessness in America is about to get worse. Los Angeles has by far the greatest number of unsheltered homeless in America and New York City the largest population - at around 65,000 - of homeless people in the US. One wonders at the State of the Union tomorrow...
Via Vizual-Statistix,
The PIT estimates are based on counts of all sheltered and unsheltered homeless persons on a single night
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Those who are identified as “unsheltered” live in places not meant for human habitation, such as streets, vehicles, parks, campgrounds, abandoned buildings, etc.
In general, the number of homeless people tracks population density, so the upper map shows homeless persons per 1,000 state population.
The top states are HI, NY, CA, and OR, though these are all less than half the per capita tally in DC.
Had I used raw counts of homeless people (without normalizing by population), CA would have had the highest value at 137,000. The next highest counts are NY (77,000) and FL (48,000).
The balance of sheltered and unsheltered is largely influenced by climate; more extreme climates found in the northern and eastern parts of the country have lower percentages of unsheltered homeless people. ND is an exception to this trend – it has approximately 2,000 homeless people, two-thirds of whom are unsheltered.
Data source: https://www.onecpd.info/resource/3031/pit-and-hic-data-since-2007/
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Woah, woah. And here I thought Baltimore was terrble. I was going to make a comment about it earlier this evening, but I'm glad this article showed up so I wouldn't have to be off-topic.
Today I went a route that I normally don't take anymore, but I remember between 9 and 13 months ago I posted frequently about seeing an increase in homeless populations. The number/frequency of homeless females I'm seeing is going up. Number/Frequency of homeless whites going up. Haven't seen any children out there yet.
Oh, and not everyone is sheltered. That solid gold and no blue is crap. Also, Hawaii? Half a percent?
rather be homeless
than boatless...
"Boats and Hoes!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8T095mFdW8
when can we start throwing around the term 'Obamaville'? I've been waitin' a couple of years to use that one.
Congratulations
You just started it!
http://www.radiantwriting.hubpages.com/hub/from-hooverville-to-obamaville
Do you want to end up like Perkins or that Bitcoin guy?
I prefer Obamination myself. Sooner or later, we'll all be just as screwed as the homeless.
the homeless will be a witness of damnation and righteous anger against this wicked nation on the day of judgment.....there is utterly no excuse anywhere anytime for these people to be without food or shelter....and fuck you assholes who complain about this being these people's own fault....fuck you all to hell.
this vile blood thirsty nation spends trillions on wars of foreign aggression, to murder and terrorize people for no good reason than it wants oil and gold to line its bollinger soaked cuffs, and yet it all fits as it treats people in this country like animals...
tony,
My town has homeless people.
It also has a homeless shelter with empty beds.
When the local news people ask the homeless about this, the usual answer is that the homeless shelter has 'rules' including curfews, requirements to keep oneself and one's space 'clean,' and not to fight with others and behave oneself.
They don't like to live with 'rules.'
Well lets start bussing them down dare den, den you can take such good care of them they will stay. Oh you tried that already and that's why you still have empty beds.
Homeless "shelters" are almost always worse then the streets. Unless i think I'm loosing fingers I stay away. I challenge you to spend the night there before making ignorant comments.
Hard to believe San Francisco isn't top of the list. Never have I seen so many homeless people. It's seems to be an acceptable lifestyle out here. There are hundreds of shitty campers parked everywhere with people living in them. San Francisco even has a program to give homeless people free dogs! Mind Blown.
City's now thinking about fee crack pipes to help mitigate spread of AIDS
Go figure
Progressive assholes
Don't live there then. Easy!
All the big homeless states are big Democratic strongholds.
Ya noticed!
State A: High taxes; large state bureaucracy; many regulations; generous welfare benefits
State B: Low taxes; small state bureaucracy; fewer regulations; few welfare benefits
Which state will have the most homeless?
Dude: hate to pop your bubble, but check the map given to us to view. My state, North Dakota, is listed as having the highest % of "unsheltered homeless", and we are about 85% Repugs in every pollitical category. Check my earlier post. It is now -25F, and pal, that is FUCKING COLD...... period. Please, do not get tied into blue vs. red. It's the fucking bankers to fear.
Stay warm brother. Hope you got massive stockpiles of lutefisk and/or lefsa. I keep telling these Brooklyn crybabies they don't know Jack about cold.
So you're a republican addicted to yoga??? Thought I'd see a unicorn long before someone like you. So confused now.
Here in Toronto, Canada, panhandler agressiveness varies. Personally, I'm more concerned with regards to the squeegy-kids that come by at traffic stops when I'm sitting in my car. They wouldn't dare do anything to me, but my poor car :(
I once witnessed a real agressive panhandler. Dude was standing on a corner at St LawerenceMarket holding a styrofoam coffee cup asking for spare change. A college aged student dropped some change in this guys cup as he passed by. I watched this. The panhandler looked into his cup and in a fit of anger started yelling at the kid who gave him the change. The panhandler yelled out to him "What the fuck is this shit????" He proceeded to dump the change from the cup into his one hand. It looked to be a bunch of pennies, nickles, and dimes. The kid looked back astonished and asked "What, you don't want my change????". The panhandler yelled out "I don't want this fucking useless crap!!!" at which point he proceeded to hurl all of the change at the kid. If that wasn't enough, the panhandler advanced on the kid and was threatening to punch him. The kid raised his arm in defence, backed off and walked away. The panhandler walked back to the corner as if nothing happened and started asking for change again. I guess one of the ladies near me gave him a dirty look as he exclaimed to her "What the fuck are you looking at bitch!!!!!".
Fuck the homeless!
many panhandlers have mental issues - can all be cured, but there's no business and government handouts in curing people.
if this were a full blown confrontation, cops, fire, ambulance would get involved - perhaps charges laid - courts, court admin, lawyers and then the rehab business - more government paid for bullshit
so yes, fuck the homeless - hope they off themselves, because a cure will never be allowed by the nazi's that run government
i douched ya. not all freakin mental issues can be cured! they just get big Pharma involved and sedate the fook out of ya!!!!
so yes, fuck the homeless - hope they off themselves
That is why I teach the homeless to build Bombs. If they decide to off themselves then I just hope that they will take people like you, Rising Sun, out with them.
If you do not think that I am serious and actively doing that..you are so mistaken. I am serious and actively doing that. It is NOT ILLEGAL TO TEACH PEOPLE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH6GpXAXmx8
Who needs a gun?
I hope that you appreciate the way that I am saying "Fuck you" through my actions.
OT: Just for you Shorty.
Keep on keepin on being his cheerleader.
I rest my case as you've got to be the biggest idiot non-savant I've ever read to post something so slingblade dumb on a public forum as this...
"That is why I teach the homeless to build Bombs."
I am no Government cheerleader, faggot.
And what I revealed here is simple shit.
Of course you support people like this...AS FINANCIAL SUPPORT IS SUPPORT.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKb5NXWi_B4
What a FAG!!
Ahhhh Shorty, where did I go wrong?
Should I have said midget? Dwarf? Little Man?
With local LEO involved, another "Fast & Furious" got your boy's name all over it.
Fuck you too! You sheltered, ignorant, hobophobe!
I bet you play hockey right? Eh. I mean everybody in Canada plays hockey? Eh. Your entire country is one homogenous group of exactly identical people all of which are less then human and of no value to the human race. Eh.
No chance the guy had mental issues?
Many homeless also have mental disabilities just like you pansies up there in USA junior
I have to say I have seen it both ways. I have tried to help poor people who would do nothing when offered help such as college tuition assistance to improve their lives. And I have seen people who are truly destitute and need food and shelter.
I make peace with the massive needs of the poor by budgeting a portion of my paycheck to go to the poor and I have it go through a volunteer organization where 100% of the funds are used to sustain life and/or help people become self sufficient. Someday as I get better at earning a living I hope to be able to give much more to the poor- but honestly I don't feel sorry for those who are unwilling to improve their situation.
I think the homeless got the bath salt message in Miami.
Are those living rent free through not paying their mortgage in over 2 years considered sheltered?
One summer night, the ex wanted to take the family to downtown Salt Lake City for the evening.
She noticed a man dressed in white robes silently soliciting money from passersby.
She insisted on giving him $5.
We approached him, she gave him the money, she tried to talk with him, but he would not answer.
Later we found out his name by recognizing him on the news: Brian David Mitchell, the man who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart.
Worth repeating
One summer night, the ex wanted to take the family to downtown Salt Lake City for the evening.
She noticed a man dressed in white robes silently soliciting money from passersby.
She insisted on giving him $5.
We approached him, she gave him the money, she tried to talk with him, but he would not answer.
Later we found out his name by recognizing him on the news: Brian David Mitchell, the man who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart.
I camped along the entire west coast last summer. All the homeless I met were substance abusers, without exception. Many were vets. Some were walking time bombs.
But they all had a story, and mostly were not much different from ZHers; malcontents, super opinionated, anti gov, fiercely independent.
Many spent their monthly disability pmts in two weeks on booze or pot or whatever, and then spend 2 weeks dumpster diving or panhandling. The tweekers are to be avoided at all costs.
They are very humane to the homeless up in Victoria, but there are some seriously dangerous guys in norcal and SF. They seem to let them take over Market street in SF. Some of them have lost their humanity.
San Diego looked to be homeless paradise in the beautiful parks they have there.
It's the Californians who've lost their humanity.
They end up with drug problems. The harder the life the easier it is to run away and chase the high... Viscous cycle
Some people, its their own fault.
Some, not. I live in rural Wisconsin and my county is considered poor. I have friends with small children who work, but barely scrape by. There are retirees, who live on a fixed income. When propane goes from a little over a dollar a unit to over five bucks, people's lives are ruined. That's not their fault. I wonder how many more empty houses will populate the area.
Its very sad here right now.
And cold. -25 as I type.
How many empty houses are there? The banks got how many trillions?
There you go. Homeless problem solved.
Eat my ass, your dirty tongued filthy lazy homeless scum! Maybe this will get you a penny to rent a place.
Only kind of job your lot are able to do.
Signed: an 'American'
Do homeless get EBT cards?
It's a change most decent, reading comments by regulars 'round here: Switch-aroo from econ cipher stations to stories of many doing the kinetic quelling the inevitable "Umph" felt when eyeballing a homeless someone. Selective/clustering bias or something; the seemingly endless comments on many forums, post after post about the gazillion entitled "I saw and even seen all these fat fucks using mytitlements buyin' Cheetos and playstation-Cheetos. Lazy. Mother. God damn. Shits.
Weasel word worst. No denying of welfare state here, it's shit however to engage in their amicus 'murica divisive prattle.
I'm outta touch. Many of us are (or vice versa) cuz it's not believable, the parroting of reason-abily people gushing out the liberal-goppy stuff. Again and more. Yes, it's choir rubbing/wake me up @ 500$ up day/meh, I'm not not guilty of 'meh' but
Mehhhhh!
The race vs race vs class class shat out of every paper/poli/media/here-say for centuries=the bad guys win.
This may sound ridiculous but whatevers: since the 2010, I've been (gotta try something right?) going to the inner city (hint: every 2-3 years gets the most murders per/cap award) approaching dudes who for all intents and purposes could 1. Kill me with many things 2. See 1. Leftovers from bloods/crips, reorganized- same shit more fractured (by blocks, not flag). Why? To (don't laugh or do) tell whoevers' listening a short version of the fed-banks, the big lie, the uniparty- those stuffs- most important though is telling "them" what "they" (libertarians/un hijacked tea-partiers) think, using Ron Paul's words as a bench.
I do the same thing and feel at least as scared going to a tea-party after church meeting doing the same thing, but I'll bring along one of "them"with me so "they" can spark and see in the flesh up close each other with eyeballs. No screen.
It sucks- none of my friends will help, so a solo deal in a 3+ million pop. conurbation.
It's hard, outta those years real connections are rare but what else can I do (don't answer that!). The few genuine unhat-unmcoy turn outs have been spectacular to see though.
(I wish I had recorded it first breakthrough
..one time I ended up at a section 8 pile o junk, full of ex cons and a few others who I didn't know. After an hour of talking about music and movies, there were a group of very serious dudes and a pro to boot huddled around my dumb iPhone totally watching Ron Paul vids from YouTube. With the king cobra 40z and all. It was worth much more then a few Au Buffalos.
(another note: this pissed me off. I tried the same thing with early occupy types and tea party types. That was a 100% failure)
Take it easy on the Google Translator there, buddy.
It makes your rant look mindless.
Oh, wait - nevermind.
At least the drugs are working.
That is some world class gibberish.
It may qualify you for a job as a Obamacare navigator.
Chris? Christopher Walken? Is that you?
Green arrow for utter incoherence! Well done good Sir!!!
Green arrow for utter incoherence! Well done good Sir!!!
I've got three panhandling squirrells climbing my screen doing some pretty aggressive begging this morning. Think I'll help em out this time.
That dark brown shading of North Dakota is scary.
How would unsheltered homeless survive there without becoming peopcicles?
Damn.
I used to manage a store in a medium sized city. Every day this woman would sit outside the store crying & begging for change. One day after we closed up, we happened to walk the same direction as her. We saw her get into her Mercedes and drive away. I don't ever give money to people on the street. You don't know their situation and you don't know where the money is going.
lol. if one person is person is making dough they must all be ball'n.
Panhandling is a hustle. Woman make at least 2x more then men ALWAYS.
The most I ever made was $10/h but only for 4 hours during rush hour when thing got busy. the rest of the day I got nothing.
In the city i say now I made $3.50/hr Christmas time and it was fucking snowing. Then the cops threatened to arrest me. Trust me, a lot more miserable than you think...
ND was suprising...
The ND unsheltered number is bogus..... I am in SD and we are a balmy -5. Minot is -11 with a wind chill of -35. It would be impossible to survive in these temperatures for any length of time. Locally, a church group runs a shelter for the homeless and indigent. Is unsheltered really unsheltered in the upper midwest? I suspect not!
Cold in NYC also are those numbers bigus as well?
In ND they donT count tipis as shelter.
With total population of around 400000 doesn't take a lot of individuals to reach whatever percentage you see in this graphic.
Are there even 400000? Too lazy to look it up.
Numbers here all bullshit.
http://www.laalmanac.com/social/so14.htm
Homelessness in Los Angeles County
According to the Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty at the Weingart Center, an estimated 254,000 men, women and children experience homelessness in Los Angeles County during some part of the year and approximately 82,000 people are homeless on any given night. Unaccompanied youth, especially in the Hollywood area, are estimated to make up from 4,800 to 10,000 of these.
Other Facts About the Homeless Population in Los Angeles:
The average age is 40 - women tend to be younger.
33% to 50% are female. Men make up about 75% of the single population.
About 42% to 77% do not receive public benefits to which they are entitled.
20% to 43% are in families, typically headed by a single mother.
An estimated 20% are physically disabled.
41% of adults were employed within last year.
16% to 20% of adults are employed.
About 25% are mentally ill.
As children, 27% lived in foster care or group homes; 25% were physically or sexually abused
33%-66% of single individuals have substance abuse issues.
48% graduated from high school; 32% had a bachelor degree or higher (as compared to 45% and 25% for the population overall respectively).
Head to Delaware young man...at least you will have a roof over your head but Dover is a tough panhandle...
North Dakota makes the list for the number of people that're homeless and unsheltered, but that's because those folks came here to work and are making $50K-$80K, yet stay in their truck to save on rent.
Homeless AND unsheltered in ND. Given the winters back home (I'm from there) surely they start each year at zero homeless after the winter homeless freeze to death. Wtf?
This comment thread is bananas. I gotta leave before I have a stroke. Maybe some others should too. Why get so damn mad about what is in the end, tragic? Do something or don't just choose one course you can live with and then do what you will.
strange, tha maps look like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states