US Homelessness Crisis

what about the significantly higher homelessness rates?

Perhaps you just never went into the "right" areas to experience it but I've seen it in many cities.Instead of basing your thoughts on personal anecdotes you should look towards statistics. For instance the New York City Department of Homeless Services estimated, in 2013, they had almost 50,000 homeless living in the city[1]. But this is just an example; you can look at a huge variety of statistics for many types of places to see how widespread the issues are.Overall there a

Very much related: https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a62875397/homelessness...

I think you might be prejudiced here. Homelessness is a huge problem in other parts of the world too, especially Africa and parts of Asia.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_...

Stastistically, there are twice as many homeless than in the US:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_...Perhaps they are well-hidden?

Do democratic/left/liberal states generate or attract more homelessness? Seems to happen with many other liberal city hubs.

And the homeless epidemic there :-(

The idea that the homeless are residents who have now been displaced is a misnomer, especially in Seattle. Seattle has abundant housing and welfare choices and very loose enforcement of any laws. Up north you can get a govt provided tiny home with high speed internet, if one were to choose to leave the streets.

Places with good weather have huge visible homeless populations. (I have traveled all over the United States, and have been to all fifty states. AFTER EDIT: I have been in, and have lived in, gritty "skid row" neighborhoods of large United States cities, and have lived in Los Angeles.) Places with lousy weather, like the place where I grew up and now live, certainly have people who are "homeless" in the sense of not having a secure legal right to occupy a particular place at their own discretion

The homeless population is the elephant in the room here.