• pan_troglodytes
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    11 months ago

    roughly 653,000 people reported experiencing homelessness in January of 2023,

    typo or does it take a year to compile statistics like that?

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      11 months ago

      I mean, that’s a significant amount of data to compile from folks that probably won’t be filing right into your database for you. You have to get people walking around encampments with a clipboard in a whole lot of places.