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The Color Coded Map Should be Per Capita

The color coded map of absolute count of homeless people per state is so misleading as to be useless. This map should display homeless people per capita. (e.g. Per Capita Homeless Map) Otherwise, the map just tells people that there are more people in New York than Vermont. The fact that the map was sourced from the US government does not excuse this egregious violation of statistical visualization best practice.

Wrong numbers

If 'In 2013 that number jumped to one out of 30 children, or 2.5 million.[82] - then. it's not possible to have only 0.17% rate !

reliable sources, neutarlity and due weight

Should we be having as much contents as we have that is based on contents from homeless advocacy groups? I believe organizations like National Alliance to End Homelessness among others do not present the subject from neutral point of view nor are they recognized as authoritative expert. I have tagged the page for this reason nor are they recognized as authoritative expert. Graywalls (talk) 01:24, 15 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"do not present the subject from neutral point of view" Wikipedia editors have to be neutral on any given topic, but there is no requirement for our sources to be neutral. According to our policy on Biased_or_opinionated_sources:

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Editing causes to be a heading and adding a section on losing social ties. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Go23bears (talk • contribs) 18:55, 14 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello everyone! I plan on possibly contributing to this article by adding to the Housing section in this article as there is more to be said about the rehabilitation process and efforts in the US. There is a lot of detailed information already in this article on the causes but I want to expand on the opportunities available to homeless people to transition out of homelessness, the barriers in place and the efforts being made to make the transition easier. I would begin by discussing the statistics of people that leave homelessness and use that low statistic to launch discussion about research done concerning homeless shelters vs affordable housing to rehabilitate homeless people and keep poor people close to homelessness of the street. Listing alleviators of poverty an homelessness, I will talk about the difficulties the homeless face when attempting to find finding jobs and generate income; briefly touch on the societal stigma that also poses as a barrier to the betterment of their situation. I may alter the order in which I arrange the points but I hope to address each of these things in the article. For more information on my references, please take a look at my User page and Sandbox (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:EEmenike/sandbox). ~~~~ EEmenike (talk) 04:26, 14 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Great job updating this article! You did a fantastic job of adding relevant, important information to this article in a clear and well-organized way. To further strengthen this contribution, I would suggest that you add some additional content and perspectives to the Residential Rehabilitation section of the article. These changes would be an improvement because it would help to balance the section, as well as improve the neutrality of the contribution overall. This, in as well as adding some new images, are the most important things that you could do to improve this article. Once again, fantastic job, and I look forward to seeing the final product! Madison Roy (talk) 17:59, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]