The U.S. is filled with homeless people. Even Italy, which was doing economically terrible when I visited, didn’t even have a fraction of the homelessness problem as in the U.S.
Except Finland and Danemark[0]
Italy is much lower at 8/100k.
The definition of who is homeless and how they are counted varies dramatically between countries to the point where comparing headline numbers is largely useless.
45/100k would be an incredible improvement.
Though looking up Paris, it is ~200/100k, which is still half of Seattle's rate!
Interestingly, these are not unrelated. Italy's housing prices are very low because of how badly it's doing economically.
And also... no -- homelessness is one bad problem, but there are other problems. Bad economies cause a myriad, including declining healthcare availability and reductions in life expectancy.