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Across US cities, homelessness rates track rent levels and vacancy rates, not rates of poverty, drug use or mental illness.
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groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
An obvious place to begin is poverty rates. Does more poverty predict more homelessness? No. A number of cities with high rates of poverty, Detroit, Miami, Dallas, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, have low rates of homelessness. It is richer cities with low overall poverty rates that see more homelessness.
groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
More drug use explains only about 5% of the difference between places.
groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
As the cost of rent rises, so too does the number of homeless. As a vacancy rate plummets, meaning that the housing market is tight with too many buyers and too few sellers, homelessness rises.
groundsAbundance, Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
If you live in a city with too few homes, poverty and drug abuse and unemployment and mental illness make it likelier that you will be among those who end up without a home. But the cause of homelessness isn't the poverty or the addiction or the unemployment.
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