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[–] Marcbmann 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hm, that article is putting LA at about 75k homeless.

NYC also has more than twice the total population of LA. So homed to homeless ratio is a lot worse in LA

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The article says that Los Angeles county has 75k and the city has 46k. As for population, NYC has a population of 8.8 million and LA city has a population of 3.8 million. This means that NYC has a homeless population percentage of 11.3% and LA has a homeless population percentage of 11.9%.

It's probably a bit of an apples and oranges comparison, NYC is split into the five boroughs each of which is its own county. Some of the boroughs seem to have radically different homeless situations, some being as low as 1000 homeless persons. LA (city) on the other hand is approximately 45% the population of NYC and doesn't take up it's entire county, but has nearly the same homeless rate.

At the same time Los Angeles seems to run into other towns and be nearly seamless with them. Should Anaheim get lumped in with LA? If we're counting those should we expand NYCs area to include Yonkers and Newark?