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r/theydidthemath • u/Call-Me-Matterhorn • 3d ago
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While Germany and the US have roughly the same number of what are considered homeless, unsheltered homeless, i.e. people on the street, are roughly 4x of Germany's number. ~50000 in Germany vs. 200,000 in US.
12 u/JonDowd762 2d ago So per capita about the same? 7 u/Sufficient-Bowl8771 2d ago Yes. I just wanted to express that there aren’t 4 x people more on the streets per capita 1 u/Numerous_Topic_913 2d ago To be fair, the US has many more places were it is more hospitable to sleep on a bench than Germany. In most of Germany you’d just die in the winter.
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So per capita about the same?
7 u/Sufficient-Bowl8771 2d ago Yes. I just wanted to express that there aren’t 4 x people more on the streets per capita
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Yes. I just wanted to express that there aren’t 4 x people more on the streets per capita
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To be fair, the US has many more places were it is more hospitable to sleep on a bench than Germany. In most of Germany you’d just die in the winter.
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u/Sufficient-Bowl8771 3d ago
While Germany and the US have roughly the same number of what are considered homeless, unsheltered homeless, i.e. people on the street, are roughly 4x of Germany's number. ~50000 in Germany vs. 200,000 in US.