by Eric Zuesse, The Duran:
That’s 20 homeless per 10,000 people. Currently, America has 22 per 10,000.
On December 27th, HUD (the Department of Housing and Urban Development) headlined obscurely (perhaps so as not to draw attention to it) “HUD Releases January 2024 Point-In-Time Count Report” and reported: “The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today released its 2024 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report: Part 1: Point-in-Time Estimates, an annual snapshot of the number of individuals in shelters, temporary housing, and unsheltered settings. The report found more than 770,000 [1 out of every 448] people were experiencing homelessness on a single night in [it was, as explained on page 15 of the detailed report, the average from among the final 10 days of] January 2024, an 18% increase from 2023.” It was the all-time high, but America’s population likewise was at an all-time high, and, for example, back in 2010 (when America’s population was 10% less than today’s), there were 649,917 homeless Americans on a typical night. So, on a per-capita basis, America’s performance on homelessness is horrible, and it’s not getting any better. If anything, it’s getting a bit worse, over the long term.
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Just as a point of comparison, Russia had 64,077 homeless in 2010 but 11,285 homeless in 2021. The U.S., as I said, had 649,917 homeless in 2010. It had 582,462 homeless in 2022.
Russia had 144,237,000 population; U.S. had 333,288,000.
If America in 2010 had the same percentage homeless as Russia did in 2010, it would have had 144,660 homeless in 2010. If America in 2021 had the same percentage homeless as Russia did in 2021, then it would have had 26,666 homeless in 2021.
But the U.S. Government calls Russia an ‘autocracy’ and a ‘dictatorship’, and is trying to overthrow its Government, by declaring itself to be a “democracy.”
Wikipedia shows a “List of sovereign states by homeless population” giving the # of homeless per 10,000 population, and for the U.S. in 2023 it was 19.5; for Russia in 2023 it was 0.8; and here are prominent countries to mention frtom Wikipedia’s list:
for Belgium in 2021 it was 11.7;
for Brazil in 2022 it was 6.5;
for Cambodia in 2021 it was 1.8;
for Canada in 2021 it was a horrid 62.5;
for Chile in 2019 it was 7.0;
for China in 2011 it was 19.2;
for Czechia in 2019 it was 22.0;
for Denmark in 2022 it was 9.8;
for Finland in 2022 it was 7.9;
for France in 2022 it was 48.7;
for Germany in 2022 it was 31.4;
for Guatemala in 2012 it was a monstrous 315;
for Hungary in 2022 it was 7.2;
for India in 2011 it was 12.6;
for Iran in 2022 it was 14.8;
for Iraq in 2014 it was a monstrous 544;
for Ireland in 2024 it is 16.0;
for Israel in 2020 it was 4.0;
for Italy in 2021 it was 8.4;
for Japan in 2024 it is 0.2;
for Kazakhstan in 2020 it was 0.6;
for Kenya in 2019 it was 3.9;
for Mexico in 2020 it was the world’s second-highest 1,111;
for Netherlands in 2021 it was 18.0;
for New Zealand in 2018 it was a monstrous 217;
for Norway in 2020 it was 6.2;
for Pakistan in 2023 it was a monstrous 331;
for Philippines in 2018 it was a monstrous 424;
for Poland in 2019 it was 8.0;
for Portugal in 2021 it was 8.0;
for Russia in 2023 it was 0.8;
for Singapore in 2021 it was 1.9;
for Slovakia in 2020 it was 19.5;
for Somalia in 2023 it was a super-monstrous 772;
for South Africa in 2022 it was 9.0;
for South Korea in 2022 it was 1.7;
for Spain in 2022 it was 8.6;
for Sweden in 2023 it was 25.9;
for Switzerland in 2022 it was 2.5;
for Syria in 2023 it was the world-record-high 2,302;
for Thailand in 2023 it was 0.3;
for Turkey in 2024 it was 8.2;
for UK in 2023 it was a horrid 56.1;
for U.S. in 2023 it was 19.5;
for Zimbabwe in 2013 it was a super-monstrous 848.
That’s 45 countries. 22 were below 10. Those were the well-performing Governments, on providing housing, basic protection for their residents. The others were the poor-performing countries, on this most important of the necessary functions that a nation should be providing for its citizens. Some of the poor-performing countries would have had valid excuses for their poor perfomances on this, such as the worst-performing, Syria, which was destroyed by the U.S and Israeli Governments and their allies, which were determined to overthrow its Government.
