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At least here in vancouver, if you go to east hastings almost every single homeless person is either white or indigenous, despite the official data saying something different. I know why indigenous face these issues, but why so many white people? Is it because most of them originated in a rural area and moved here? The homeless demographic looks completely different than the demographic of the city itself.

Hop the border to seattle and it seems like homeless people are usually black or latino, which makes a lot more logical sense to me.

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[–] rabber@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I live in Victoria and I rarely see homeless Asian people but they do exist. Seems like mostly white here too, but that makes sense because majority population is white anyway

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

If the problem isn't race, statistics indicate they will likely match the trends for the region. Would it surprise you to learn there are a lot of homeless Indians in Delhi?

If the problem is race, you need to ask why. No studies I'm aware of have strongly linked success or mental health with race. If people don't want to rent to, sell to, buy from, or employ certain races, this has a chance of increasing the number of homeless people of that race, relative to their proportion of the community. It may also drive up the number of that race leaving that area, further inflating the relative proportion of homeless people of that race.

And finally, if the demographics of your community are an outlier of the demographic statistics you're reviewing, the more likely they are to not match the statistics.