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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]

So they do not have a family member 65.60.129.197 (talk) 00:41, 2 April 2025 (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 !

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Plans to Add to "Housing" and "Federal and presidential efforts" subsection

Hello, I'm intending on making some additions to the page:

Describe subsidized/permanent supportive housing, the shift from sobriety & treatment-based housing to Housing First, and the shift's controversy in the "Housing" subsection of "Efforts towards ending homelessness."

Add a line about advocacy for homelessness in “Historical background” in “1980s and 1990s."

Add a line about the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) to describe its relationship with federal agencies and its targeted programs in the “Federal and presidential efforts” subsection in the “Efforts towards ending homelessness” section.

Replace images of people experiencing homelessness to represent them in a dignified manner.

Jeltup (talk) 00:26, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jeltup: These sound like great improvements to the article. At the risk of telling you something you might already know: when you add images to the article, please be mindful of the image use policy — basically, try to stick to images that are public domain or have a permissive license like Creative Commons. Images that are not released under a permissive license can only be used in limited circumstances that require extra documentation. Einsof (talk) 10:41, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]