The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts of the country, federal officials said Friday.

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    I don’t want to see percentage increase values for things like these. I’d prefer percent of population, or absolute values.

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      more than 770,000 people were counted as homeless — a number that misses some people and does not include those staying with friends or family because they do not have a place of their own.

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      770,000 people were counted as homeless

      23 of every 10,000 people in the U.S.

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      And you would get those of you bothered to read the first three paragraphs of the article.

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      “I want to be mad at integers, not percentages”

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        If 10 people were homeless that’s less than 2 new homeless people.

        If 10m are homeless, that’s close to 2m new homeless.

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          There are integers in the article…………