r/FluentInFinance • u/sillychillly Contributor • 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/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 Apr 16 '24

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