Thanks I have been trying to find my source for a while now
I was reading a lot and I mistakenly thought the link was where I got that number and it isn't. The real number may or may not be that high. But, now I am a bit more ticked off. It shouldn't be this difficult to find out how many people die due to lack of housing or the complications of not being housed. It just shouldn't. Statistics it seems are kept sporadically at best and not at all at worst. Some cities make an effort, but as you can guess it's difficult to find the numbers of people who are homeless, criteria varies some stats wouldn't count couch surfers and people who live with relatives in unstable situations. It is still an issue that I think more attention should be payed attention to. But, I think it won't be because it is an issue that affects far more minorities and people with mental illness two groups that by and large don't seem to matter to the moral majority. But, as near as I can tell from the few cities I have looked up hundreds of people in major cities and probably just approaching an average of 80 or so for smaller metro areas and an average of a couple for smaller cities and rural areas, the actual number might be below 10,000 that is the closest I can come to a guess. I could be wrong, 37,000 might be the actual number. The fact that we don't know IMO just adds to the tragedy.