Homelessness in the US hit 771,480 in January 2024, an 18% increase driven by inflation, rising housing costs, and systemic challenges.
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[WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of people experiencing homelessness, including those temporarily residing in shelters, rose 18 percent in the past year to 771,480 as of January this year, according to data released by the Department of Housing and Urban Development on the 27th. The record growth was driven by rising home prices, high consumer prices, systemic racism, and immigration. The homeless problem in the United States is becoming a serious issue, and in many cities it has become commonplace to see impoverished people setting up tents on the sidewalks. Homeless people under the age of 18 saw the largest increase, up 33 percent, to 150,000. Additionally, blacks made up 32% of all homeless people. For the full text, see source. Last updated: 12/30 (Mon) 8:41.
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>>7 I don’t think so. America is all about airplanes and doing weird real estate development, saying they don’t have land for housing, and Japan is developing real estate with things like bullet trains, so I don’t think it’s the same. I mean, America should just buy Hitachi’s bullet trains, come on. And build houses for everyone, and redo the bonds.
What’s going on, a 20% increase? American stock prices are soaring, isn’t the economy doing well? Just like in Japan, only the stock assets of a few wealthy people are being boosted, and ordinary people are struggling.
>>9 Prices are crazy. At a supermarket in Shimane, New Mexico, USA, 10 eggs cost $8 (on sale). If you work at a low-income job that pays less than $5 an hour, you’ll have to work two hours to buy them. Still, this level is better than most. States with single-person households earning less than $15,000 a year, and nearly 20% earning $30,000 for a family of four, are dead.
However, America’s education is falling apart, the security situation is bad, the public transportation is dead, and everything else is a mess, but the strengths of English and the fact that they can afford to pay so much money and attract talented people from all over the world all seem to cancel everything out.
The US stock market is about to collapse. This will lead to a simultaneous global stock market crash. It will be stagnant for several years, so get out now.
In Japan, the homeless are mostly elderly people, but in America, there are 150,000 of them. It’s amazing. If the younger generation were like this, there would be riots.
Many Japanese people praise the American economy, but they rarely report on the fact that so many low-income people are dying in the shadow of inflation.
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In the United States, more than half of income goes to rent and utility bills, and the median home price in the Silicon Valley metropolitan area has topped 300 million yen.
>>38 The numbers only look good because the wealthy are piling up credit card debt and are absorbing it through inflation This is what happens at the end of the cycle, and eventually dominance shifts to another region.
It makes sense that the average IQ is higher in Japan. Japan has a high literacy rate and equal educational opportunities. However, the US is a melting pot where super geniuses are easily produced and are valued. There is flexibility in the society where innovation can occur and change both technology and society. That is America’s strength: America is a country where a tiny minority of exceptional geniuses can drive the lives of hundreds of millions of people.
Abnormally high prices will cause people to take out huge amounts of credit card debt, leading to a mounting pile of unpayable debts and a financial collapse.
In America, you can get by if you just want to eat, but housing prices are sky-high. Even a one-room apartment is too expensive to rent unless you live in a shared house.
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