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>It feels like blatant disregard for a starving population.

Seems we in the US get our attitude toward the homeless from the brits as well. People like to say we have a problem with it, but there is something unique going on in the UK. Some mind boggling numbers I recently noticed:

UK: 67m population, 300k homeless

US: 330m population, 600k homeless

I guess it could come down to reporting who is "homeless", but still mindblowing that the UK is in such a dire state.




You are comparing different definitions of homelessness.

The US figure is more like the UK's definition of "rough sleeper" which was around 2-3000 in 2020.




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