The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts of the country, federal officials said Friday.
I don’t want to see percentage increase values for things like these. I’d prefer percent of population, or absolute values.
more than 770,000 people were counted as homeless — a number that misses some people and does not include those staying with friends or family because they do not have a place of their own.
And you would get those of you bothered to read the first three paragraphs of the article.
Then read the article.
“I want to be mad at integers, not percentages”
If 10 people were homeless that’s less than 2 new homeless people.
If 10m are homeless, that’s close to 2m new homeless.
There are integers in the article…………