Comment Comment by jorgenhorstink "...and approximately 82,000 people are homeless on any given night." [1]82,000 homeless on a population of 9,818,605 [2]; 0.835%I just compared it to the 2012 stats for The Netherlands (highest homeless count in 2012).27,300 homeless [3] on a population of 16,779,575 [4]; 0.163%That was a bit surprising to me. It looks like there are 5 times more homeless per capita in LA than in The Netherlands...[1] http://www.laalmanac.com/social/so14.htm [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_County,_California [3] http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/themas/bevolking/publicaties/ar... [4] http://statline.cbs.nl/Statweb/publication/?VW=T&DM=SLNL&PA=... parent jorgenhorstink 11 years ago
82,000 homeless on a population of 9,818,605 [2]; 0.835%
I just compared it to the 2012 stats for The Netherlands (highest homeless count in 2012).
27,300 homeless [3] on a population of 16,779,575 [4]; 0.163%
That was a bit surprising to me. It looks like there are 5 times more homeless per capita in LA than in The Netherlands...
[1] http://www.laalmanac.com/social/so14.htm [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_County,_California [3] http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/themas/bevolking/publicaties/ar... [4] http://statline.cbs.nl/Statweb/publication/?VW=T&DM=SLNL&PA=...