Salil Mehta at Statistical Ideas investigates the homeless rate in New York City. Mehta notes the streets are flourishing with a severe homelessness problem that’s escalating briskly despite a falling unemployment rate.
Please consider a The Empire City of Homelessness.
Annual Growth Rate of Homeless
Record High Homeless
Note the huge surge in homelessness after the Great Recession ended.
Curiously, New York City is also the only place in the U.S. required to provide temporary housing to anyone needing it. Yet as homelessness rises across big cities nationally, it rose at the fastest clip in the Big Apple.
City-by-City Comparison
War on Homelessness
Mehta wisely avoids offering solutions. “We don’t provide any strong remedy for such a complex and expensive social issue,” says Mehta.
The government-sponsored war on poverty failed as have all sorts of other ridiculous wars, including real wars.
Moreover, the war on terror has turned into a war of terror.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Since the bureaucrats have decided to not count unemployed people when calculating the rate of unemployment, at some point the rate will be at zero and no one will have a job.
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It must be Trump’s fault even though he isn’t president yet. For a brief moment they had hope and then lost it when Michelle’s comments made them realize it was “fake hope.”
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Geee… this is not what Obamie is ye)ing us.
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If my property taxes keep going up year after year, I too may be homeless.
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Not if, as in New York, it goes up because the Fed and Government keep robbing those barely getting by, in order to hand money to the banksters who help bidding the price of your property up.
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The lion’s share of my Texas property taxes goes to fund public schools that are mostly third world. Instead of illegal aliens duly deported, I am obligated to support and educate their children so they can usurp and disinherit my fellow Anglo Texans.
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Booming economies in cities increase homelessness, esp. when the boom has a huge inequality element to it. If you are going to be a beggar, there’s two main things you probably want in choosing your location:
1. Lots of people around.
2. More 1% type of people rather than 99%.
NYC is perfect for that since you have crowded streets, crowded subways and it is not hard to run into 1% type people (I’m going to guess in LA they tend to stay in their cars more)
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Where is LA on the chart? Tent cities are rising all over the place.
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I was looking at that missing piece too. Long Beach is there and down 40%, quite surprisingly.
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In light of Uncle Obamie’s the $15/hour minimum wage push:
“In California, Oakland and Alameda County policymakers have launched a pilot program to provide unsheltered residents at the MacArthur Freeway camp with basic services, such as waste pickup, porta-potties and health services via a mobile health clinic. In addition to those services, the policymakers have directed social services and relief employees to work with the residents of the camp to help them find permanent housing”.
http://www.waste360.com/waste-reduction/oakland-calif-provides-trash-pickup-homeless-camps
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So in LA — the homeless people, who pay no taxes, are going to get a “free” mobile health clinic.
Yet taxpayers are going to get whacked with 30% Obamacare premium increases?
I wonder how long it will take the “smartest guys in Silicon Valley” to figure out how this is going to blow up in California’s face.
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I dunno, but when it happens, I’m going to make a big bowl of buttered popcorn and sit back and watch the biggest comedy act to ever hit America.
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Rising real estate prices no doubt are another key factor. If the Rent is too damm high but you are really connected to a neighborhood (say lower level service jobs), becoming homeless might be a better option than trying to start over in a totally unfamiliar place.
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This.
“Cellphonelessness” would be a big problem too, if those who happened to own one in 1990, were allowed to ban others from getting one without getting an OK from a committee of already owners. All of whom had every incentive in the world to say no, to reduce supply in order to “increase their cellphone vaiiiijuuues”
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“War of Terror”, according to this (it’s on the internet) Obama dropped at least 26,171 bombs on foreign countries during this supposed time of peace.
http://blogs.cfr.org/zenko/2017/01/05/bombs-dropped-in-2016/
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I wonder… if Hezbollah drops a few more bombs on Israel to catch up to Obama — can they then win the Nobel Peace prize and collect a million from Swedish taxpayers?
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Hezbollah is, of course, a Lebanese defense organization against the Ashkenazi land thieves.
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It worked for Arafat….
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There has been a big influx of ‘homeless’ who are basically just heroin addicts (in particular young & white). Heroin has made a big comeback as a drug of choice. Down where my work office is a lot of these junkies came in with the Occupy Wall Street protestors / encampment.
After the Occupy types got the boot, the junkies stayed behind. Changes in employment rates has no effects on these types as they are unemployable.
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In July, the Centers for Disease Control warned of record-breaking numbers of heroin deaths in the United States. “Heroin use more than doubled among young adults ages 18–25 in the past decade,” the CDC reported.
In the same month, it was reported that opium production is stronger than ever in Afghanistan, which now produces 90 percent of the world’s supply of the plant that’s refined to create heroin. This rise in production would have been impossible prior to the U.S.-led invasion, and it comes despite some $8.4 billion spent in counternarcotics efforts by the U.S., specifically designated to wipe out opium production in Afghanistan.
In fact, as Global Post reported in October, under the watchful eye of the U.S., opium use expanded to new parts of Afghanistan and growers now make use of modern, advanced agricultural technologies.
With photos circulating in 2010 that show U.S. soldiers patrolling opium fields, questions remain about what America’s real involvement may be in the opium trade. As Abby Martin noted in a 2014 investigation for Media Roots, while the Taliban had all but eradicated opium, it began to thrive just months after American forces replaced the Taliban-led government in 2001.
http://www.mintpressnews.com/rumors-persist-that-the-cia-helps-export-opium-from-afghanistan/209687/
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Rural and small town America used to be the Christian conservative foundation of America. But now most American small towns and rural areas are cursed with drug problems and resulting crime. In other words, the social perversion and rot has become so widespread it has corrupted and destroyed the roots, the foundations of the nation. You can’t “Make America Great Again” while ignoring massive third world immigration and degenerate social problems that are destroying America to the core. As Jeremiah 51:9 says… “we would have healed Babylon, but she cannot be healed.” Trump is the last chance to heal… but it will take a hero with the courage to make radical righteous reforms… not a politician who embraces the “art of the possible.”
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Nato Troops Guarding Poppy Fields
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The Taliban tried to eradicate the poppy fields. But that was back in the days when the Taliban were VIP guests of a Houston oil company and given a VIP tour of NASA’s Houston manned spacecraft center.
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What’s the use of the Feds having DEA field offices in Afghanistan when our soldiers protect the poppy fields? ha.
‘War on drugs’ my ass.
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Cue theme to Midnight Cowboy.
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Stomping ones cowboy boots for Fox News during the day, sucking off banksters at night: The future of “conservative” rural America!
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Sentient beings would realize that the homeless rate has nothing to do with the unemployment rate. But these are bureaucrats we’re talking about.
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My niece moved to Brooklyn a couple years ago. I visited her first apartment, it was an absolute shithole. I make no exaggeration – the plumbing was f’d up and the landlord did nothing for two weeks – complaints to bureaucrats after the first 2 days of it produced nothing. Ratso Rizzo lived in a more sanitary environment. The choice was to shut up and look for another place and live in the slum until then or make more complaints to the city and the city would condemn the building – which would make them essentially homeless until they could scramble to find something they could afford. A few months later they eventually did but the place is 20% smaller and the rent is the same.
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