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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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home-garden, foreclosures, model, image, statistics, graph, housing-shortage, american-housing-market
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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.

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Ms CYPRAH

Yes, i have to agree that it does get the message across, simply and to the point!

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Reply#1 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 9:45 AM EST
Conservative Conspirator

That homeless number is exaggerated almost by a factor of 10.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16564208/#.Ty1PMshZeSo

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#1.1 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 10:36 AM EST
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Susan Anthony

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.

  • 1 vote
Reply#2 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 11:39 AM EST
Conservative Conspirator

The 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.... ;)

    #2.1 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 11:45 AM EST
    Susan Anthony

    Thanks for the clarification and the humor.

    • 1 vote
    #2.2 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 2:14 PM EST
    Conservative Conspirator

    SA,

    Thanks for being a good sport!

    • 1 vote
    #2.3 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 2:46 PM EST
    Ms CYPRAH

    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*)

    • 1 vote
    #2.4 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 3:01 PM EST
    Conservative Conspirator

    Oops. Are you sure they didn't change the number while I was not looking....?

    • 2 votes
    #2.5 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 3:08 PM EST
    Ms CYPRAH

    LOL...:o)

    Yes, sleight of hand!!

    • 2 votes
    #2.6 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 3:19 PM EST
    Conservative Conspirator

    Liberals are SOOOO sneaky....

    • 1 vote
    #2.7 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 3:24 PM EST
    Conservative Conspirator

    Ms. C,

    The implication of this sign is the owners of these unpossessed homes should use them to house the homeless, correct?

    • 1 vote
    #2.8 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 3:25 PM EST
    Ms CYPRAH

    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?

    • 1 vote
    #2.9 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 3:34 PM EST
    Conservative Conspirator

    The government should expand the number of shelters if need be. Unfortunately about 25% of the homeless won't use them...

      #2.10 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 3:36 PM EST
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      Susan Anthony

      I think the image is meant to remind people of the devastation of the fraudulent housing market debacle.

      • 1 vote
      Reply#3 - Sat Feb 4, 2012 5:46 PM EST
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