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andy99yesterday at 5:18 PM1 replyview on HN

The people that are homeless now would have been institutionalized or dead back then.


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Schiendelmanyesterday at 5:47 PM

That's an interesting point - we may be keeping people alive better now. And the rate of people experiencing homelessness is 5-10x lower now than it was during the Great Depression.