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Might be that there are a lot less homeless in Manchester, or the UK generally.

I wonder what the numbers are.

Significantly higher if perusing this wikipedia article is anything to go by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness#Statistics_for_de...

UK: about 10K USA: about 650k

USA has about 6 times UK population, so if their populations were equal the UK would have about 60K, or one tenth of the problem.

Note: This is just guesswork just perusing that article and taking guesses at populations(60mil and 330mil). Also, it looks like countries define homelessness slightly differently, but I don't have time to read through that part of it now, so I'm bookmarking it for later.

The next question is, why is it so much higher in America?

Homelessness is a moral as well as practical problem. How can more than half a million people have no home in the richest country on earth?

Because (most of) the people of the richest country on earth believe that any form of tax-financed welfare is "socialism", which is evil, and the only reason they're the richest country on earth is diligent avoidance of "socialism".

Wasn't the point of the grand parent's post that, per capita, it isn't higher in the US as compared to the UK?

UK: 10K USA: 650k - US has 6 times the population of the UK so it look like the problems is ~10 times worse in the US.

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