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Indydem

(2,642 posts)

9. Half a million?

Reply to Geronimoe (Reply #5)

Tue Jul 21, 2015, 09:10 PM

Jul 2015

Does taking a number and multiplying it by 10x somehow make your argument more real? Or does it just make you a guy who makes up numbers to make a point?

Although flawless counts are impossible to come by – the transient nature of homeless populations presents a major difficulty – the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) estimates that 49,933 veterans are homeless on any given night.

http://nchv.org/index.php/news/media/background_and_statistics/