Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (206113)	10/16/2006 6:42:03 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

It's not impossible to count homeless people, they don't have houses or apartments but they can be counted where they eat and where they sleep. US cities do annual counts of our homeless. That's where they congregate, in cities, where there are benefits available like food and beds and medical care. It's impossible to count all of them. As you indicate, the majority are in the big cities like SF, NYC, DC, etc. But there are some that are so dysfunctional that they don't come out of the underground. Many of the cities turn away people from the shelters because there is no room left. We could argue over what the undercount might be, but there's an undercount. There's even an undercount for people with addresses who never send their census form back, it's a very small number [%] and it wouldn't substantially affect federal funding. jttmab