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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?

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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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