US homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many people
apnews.com
Federal officials say the United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts of the country.
  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 days ago

    the graphdorks

    My go-to lib graphdork is an obnoxious turbolib named Will Stancil. I assume he must argue with leftists almost every single day on Twitter and/or Bluesky. He can’t help himself.

    I changed the order so it’s Reddit-like and his comment is effectively a reply.

    Is homelessness not part of “the economy” in this formulation? Like, a large increase in homelessness is a part of the economic picture. To act like “the economy” can be walled off from homelessness is pretty crazy in my opinion.

    It absolutely is part of the economy. And a large increase in homelessness is bad. But this is a fraction of a percent of the population - even a fraction of a percent of the LOW-INCOME population. So it doesn’t tell you much about the larger economy standing alone. We have broader measures for that

    https://subium.com/profile/whstancil.bsky.social/post/3lecs4faat22t

    God, what a ghoul he is. “Homelessness is bad but…” I’d poke at him but I can’t. The day Steve Albini died - Stancil said something like he was “grief-stricken”. It seemed like a lie to me so I replied with something like “Do you mean that? Or did you say it for street cred?” And he blocked me within a few minutes.