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The Color Coded Map Should be Per Capita

The color coded map of absolute count of homeless people per state is so misleading as to be useless. This map should display homeless people per capita. (e.g. Per Capita Homeless Map) Otherwise, the map just tells people that there are more people in New York than Vermont. The fact that the map was sourced from the US government does not excuse this egregious violation of statistical visualization best practice.

I happened upon this graphic on TikTok, so I had to hunt it down. Agreed, this is extremely misleading. Happy to offer my services in updating the map; however, I am not a researcher. Is anyone able to offer a recent per-capita study of homelessness in the United States? This Business Insider map is great inspiration; however, it is from 2019, and homelessness looks a lot different since Covid in 2020.

Vitalen1 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 13:48, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wrong numbers

If 'In 2013 that number jumped to one out of 30 children, or 2.5 million.[82] - then. it's not possible to have only 0.17% rate !

Contribution Peer Review

This is really great work! I just have a few notes from my peer review: - I would perhaps explain a little bit more about what Housing First is earlier on in that section so those unfamiliar with the policy can grasp what exactly the approach means before you dive into the rest of the section. - Maybe consider linking to more pages! Since this article is such a broad topic, it might be helpful to outsource some information to other articles. - With the “Comprehensive health care” section, I would just make sure to jump straight to the point and clarify in what way you’re discussing health care. - I may also reword “Situations in specific U.S. cities and states” to something like “Specific cases” or something a bit more concise. Skyef25 (talk) 03:52, 27 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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The contents of this specific article are nicely done, and it has a vast amount of information. I just would like to suggest one thing. The article is great with knowledge and depth of the causes of homelessness, but it feels that it could improve the length. Some content should be added to the 21st century as it could add more details the "Homelessness in the United States." Maybe adding more updates from 2010 and into the current time frame. Adding more depth to that section provides better suitable details of the current topic in question. That is my only suggestion to reclarify that this article is a great source of knowledge. IcecreamintheDark 9891 (talk) 04:01, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]