I can’t really think of much to add to that… you and I seem to very much be on the same wavelength.

Oh, I guess I can update some of your numbers.

I used to be the data analyst / db admin for a large non profit of homeless shelters.

The PIT counts, the numbers we use as our ‘total homeless’ count basis?

They’re bullshit, the methodology is garbage, and the way its … attempted to be implemented is also garbage.

I was at one point able to compare our much more detailed data set of … need, number of people calling in basically, for some kind of help, vs how many we actually could help, or redirect to another non prof or something to get help… vs the PIT numbers for our area.

Long story short, a few years back, you needed to multiply the PIT by roughly 3x to 5x, to get an actual accurate number.

Carry that forward to now, the economic devastation that is occuring?

We are currently looking at somewhere in the ballpark of 5 to 10 million people homeless for at least 3 consecutive months, where homeless is defined as: you do not actually live at a location that you can recieve mail at, or you live in a homeless shelter, or you have been couch surfing (you’re living somewhere you aren’t on the lease for) for at least 3 months.

There are so many people who live in cars or RVs… because it used to be legal to do that. After the Grants Pass decision, it basically isn’t anymore, anywhere in the US. So your ‘home’ can and will be impounded and you will become ‘fully’ homeless.

Living on the streets is now also just actually illegal in basically all of the US. Everytime you hear a cop say that some encampment was contacted and offered support services before they cleared the encampment?

What that means is the cops gave people the numbers of shelters that are compmetely full and have no excess capacity.

Hows that for spin phrasing, eh? Makes the people in the encampment seem voluntarily noncompliant, when the truth is the cops gave them either utterly useless advice, or commands that are impossible to follow, depending on how you wanna look at it.

So yeah. 5 to 10 million people are homeless right now, thats gonna get worse, and a significant proportion of those people die from exposure, starvation, disease, develop a drug addiction, die from that, or just fun ole fashioned physical violence.

They’ll likely end up in the DHS gulag archipelago that’s been hastily built to handle all the deportations, or basically its cousin or some specific subsection of it.