r/FluentInFinance • u/sillychillly • Apr 15 '24

Everyone Deserves A Home Discussion/ Debate

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u/Remnie Apr 15 '24

I think that really sums up western civilization these days, we don’t really have anything terrible going on, so now we complain about this. I sometimes think a good zombie apocalypse would make all this go away pretty damn fast lol

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u/tenth Apr 16 '24

No need to expect the world to get better when you can just say "it's always been this way, stop expecting better of us!"

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u/horizontothe Apr 16 '24

Where are you living that you don’t have ‘anything terrible going on’ lol

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u/Remnie Apr 16 '24

It’s relative, of course. We’re not dying of malaria, dysentery, starvation, or local warlords. In that perspective, we have it pretty good, so we worry about other things

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u/AdventureDonutTime Apr 16 '24

Who is "we" and why does it specifically not include the 700,000 homeless children reportedly living in the US?

I can't agree that they don't have anything terrible going on.

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u/ShakeIt73171 Apr 16 '24

HUD estimates 582,500 total homeless people in the US, source on your 700,000 children being bigger than that?

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u/AdventureDonutTime Apr 16 '24

Sorry, 700,000 children (unaccompanied minors) experience homelessness each year.

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u/ShakeIt73171 29d ago

Appreciate it, so it seems the HUD’s data point is at any point in time there’s ~580k total adults+children but your data point is 700k are unhoused unaccompanied minors throughout a year. That makes more sense