" Estimated homeless in 2022 was 582,000. Based on observation around Anchorage, newz stories about homelessness and anecdotal stories, I estimate the number conservatively has tripled since 2022."
Today's newz from Chicago supports this latest estimate.
Much like FSoA debt, the rapid increase over such a short interval of time is an indicator that "critical mass" has been passed, the point at which normal incremental expansion of existing systems can't keep pace with forces that are driving the increase in numbers that the fixes are supposed to address. It's the "Hockey Stick Moment", a phrase I am now coining and claiming as my own contribution to the Collapse Lexicon. 8) For the debt bomb, the Hockey stick graph looks like this right now.
Of course, the most famous Hockey Stick graph is the one of global population of Homo Sap Meat packages beginning in 1AD until today
The Hockey Stick Moment for Homo Sap based on the graph came right around Party Time on 12/31/1999. The numbers had turned Due North and nothing short of a crash will fix the problem.
It's harder to get a single graph to cover the whole FSoA homeless situation, you can only get snapshots from different organizations that run shelters in different locations. DHS has a pretty big system.
Here's fire's related to homeless encampments in SF
The lack of uniform statistics to track homelessness makes this a particularly hard problem to judge. What few stats there are are also limited to just the Big Shities. I'd be really interested to know what the stats are for small to medium size cities like Springfield MO. This would give you a better view of what the local homegrown population of homeless is like without the constant input of new migrants.
If this trend continues more than a couple of years, cities like NY, SF, LA and Chicago will look like a floor display of tents at Bass Pro. The size and number of Bidenvilles popping up in downtowns, under overpasses and in public parks already puts the problem in full view of anyone still fortunate enough to be cruising to the mall to do some shopping or heading to a restaurant for dinner out. Another doubling in a couple of years would inevitably lead to either anarchy or large scale concentration camps and deportations.
This of course is exactly the kind of scenario tailor made for for Trump MAGAotts.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2024/06/07/chicago-homeless-threefold-increase-migrant-crisis
Chicago's homeless population increased threefold, a city snapshot shows, owing largely to migrants
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