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Originally Posted by Acajack
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No, because it doesn't. The idea that Canada has a rate of 62.5 people per 10,000 homeless can be a found in
a list on wikipedia. The rate is based on a number of 235,000 homeless in Canada. The problem is that the
Statistics Canada report that it's based on says "On a single day in 2018, more than 25,216 individuals across 61 communities lived in a situation of homelessness, in a shelter or not (ESDC, 2018). Similarly, it is estimated that an average of 235,000 people in Canada experience one of the many types of homelessness each year (Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, 2014)".
The US rate of homelessness at 19.5 per 10,000 is based on a
HUD study based on point-in-time estimates in 2023. "The report found more than 650,000 people were experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2023, a 12% increase from 2022."
So if we use a like-for-like methodology and use the
Canadian point-in-time number of 25,216, in the 61 locations in Canada (which had a population of around 30 million in 2018), then the rate of homelessness is less than half the rate in the US at 8.4 per 10,000.
As a direct comparison between West Coast cities; Vancouver had a 2023 point-in-time count in 2023 of 4,821 homeless, (sheltered and unsheltered) and a population (we now know) of 2.97m. That's a rate of 16.2 homeless per 10,000.
In King County just down the I5 to the south, (Greater Seattle), there were 14,149 homeless in 2023 and a population of 2.27m, which equates to 62.3 homeless / 10,000 population.
LA County had a 2023 population of 9.66m (dropping in the past 3 years), and a rising homeless count of 75,518, or 78.1 per 10,000.
73% of LA's homeless were unsheltered, 54% of Seattle's and 30% of Vancouver's.