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Sometimes, statistics by themselves cannot impress upon our collective selves the severity or absurdity of a situation, particularly when the numbers are too big, too difficult to digest.
Sometimes, it takes a graph, a representative model, an image.
Here, I present such a simple image that is rooted, at its core, in impossible statistics.
STUNNING: When a Single Image Cuts to the Core of an American Injustice
Seeded on Sat Feb 4, 2012 9:44 AM EST
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Conservative Conspirator: Help me out here. The article states:
The statistics bear it out. There are 18.4 million empty housing units in our country, a country with 131 million total units (which is 14 percent, or 1 in 7). And there are between 700,000 and 800,000 homeless Americans.
Your link states:
There were 744,000 homeless people in the United States in 2005, according to the first national estimate in a decade.
My math abilities are weak. Where is the exaggeration you state?
That homeless number is exaggerated almost by a factor of 10.
What is interesting is the numbers do not include people who lost their homes and moved in with relatives or live in smaller rented quarters, etc.
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#2 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 11:39 AM ESTThe image says 1 in 42 are homeless.
305,000,000 people divided by 42 equals 7.2 million homeless. The actual number of homeless is closer to .75 million.
Women are not good at math.... ;)
The image says 1 in 42 are homeless.
I have to correct you there, CC. It does not say that at all.
It actually says: 1 in 402. That would then give you a total of 758,706. Almost exactly the end figure you suggested of 0.75m!!
This woman is good at Maths (*says she, with a smug smile*)
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Oops. Are you sure they didn't change the number while I was not looking....?
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Ms. C,
The implication of this sign is the owners of these unpossessed homes should use them to house the homeless, correct?
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I guess so, but as I didn't write the article I wouldn't like to speak on their behalf.
Or unless they are suggesting that the government buys the houses for the homeless?
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The government should expand the number of shelters if need be. Unfortunately about 25% of the homeless won't use them...
I think the image is meant to remind people of the devastation of the fraudulent housing market debacle.
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