Personal garden...ours?
(A Holy Public Park around Tokyo)Many Respectable Homeless People
There are many respectable homeless people in America, but the trend in their number is a little mystery, since it does not look like being under a grave influence of the sub-prime loan-based crimes and the Lehman Shock-triggered financial crisis.
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On a single night in January 2009, there were an estimated 643,067 sheltered and unsheltered homeless people nationwide. More than 6 in 10 people who were homeless at a single point-in-time were in emergency shelters or transitional housing programs, while 37 percent were unsheltered on the “street” or in other places not meant for human habitation. The total number of people homeless on a single night has remained fairly stable from year to year, but over time a smaller share of all homeless people is unsheltered, and a larger share is found in emergency shelters or transitional housing. This may in part reflect better "street counts," but it probably also reflects community success in getting people off the streets and into shelters or housing.
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Anyway, check "The 2009 Annual Homeless Assessment Report" by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Community Planning and Development:
http://www.hudhre.info/documents/5thHomelessAssessmentReport.pdf
It is also surprising that the number of respectable homeless people in Japan has been decreasing in these years:
(The red numbers are the total of men and women,
http://www.garbagenews.net/archives/1324756.html )
So, applying the American ratio of the homeless over the whole population, there will be 2.6 more homeless persons to every one homeless person currently living in Japan.
Or, you are 3.6 times more likely to be homeless in America than in Japan.
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Japan Series of the professional baseball was over after completing the extended 12th inning.
A team that finished a year-long season at the third position in the Pacific League won the final series of this year to be NO.1 team in 2010.
It was a long night, since a baseball game usually ends at the ninth inning.
Yet, I still have something to work on...
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You may also wonder the true state of China.
How many homeless people are there in China?
Answer There are over 200 million people living in China, that are homeless, found on 12 different sources.http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_homeless_people_are_there_in_China