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Originally Posted by dellinger63

http://www.nationalhomeless.org/fact.../How_Many.html

Couldn't find specific stats for Chicago but in 2003 19 people died of hypothermia in Chi-town but that included people with homes as well. Admittedly that would be an extraordinarily high number for murders in a day.

I do know approximately 1,000 people in the U.S. are struck by lightning per year so at least in America, your chances of getting struck by lightning are greater than dying of hypothermia due to being homeless or at risk of being homeless. Something to be proud of.

700 dead per year seems like a big number but knowing that represents less than one in ten thousand, especially when considering the mental state and chemical addictions of many of the homeless, makes me think we're doing a hell of a job caring for them.

And it's private charities not the government who are caring for these folks, with a fraction of the money. Because like any other business/activity the private sector performs far better than D.C. could even dream of.

In other words, when you said, "In Chicago there are more people murdered in a day than the homeless who die of hypothermia in a year" you were just making it up.

Dell wrote: 700 dead per year seems like a big number but knowing that represents less than one in ten thousand, especially when considering the mental state and chemical addictions of many of the homeless, makes me think we're doing a hell of a job caring for them.

Yes, Dell. That's why all those folks are joining Occupy Wall Street. Because there are so many jobs, that the number of homeless are actually decreasing, not increasing as every organization thinks (as they run out of beds and food pantries out of food, and the number of mentally ill on the street increase, and a record number of people are on food stamps), and we are taking such good care of the starving and homeless in this country. According to you.

The nation’s homeless population increased by approximately 20,000 people from 2008 to 2009 (3 percent increase). There were also increased numbers of people experiencing homelessness in each of the subpopulations examined in this report: families, individuals, chronic, unsheltered.

God knows how many more homeless were created between 2009 and 2011 due to foreclosures and unemployment.



ttp://www.endhomelessness.org/content/article/detail/3668

National Alliance to End Homelessness: State of Homelessness in America 2011

Geeshus effing cripes. God save this country from itself and it's blind ignorance.