How bad is the homelessness around UW?

GreenwichPark
Thu, 18 Apr 2019 03:53:26 +0000

Compared to other western countries homelessness in a big problem in the USA. Especially since the economic crisis about 10 years ago. We moved back to the US in 2015 after living in Europe and EVERY major city we visited (and especially college towns) had large numbers of people on the streets. Every city we went to on the West Coast had homeless people in major tourist areas. We also went to Duke in North Carolina and all the cities in the triangle: Durham, Chapel Hill and Raleigh all had homeless people. There is a lot of economic inequality in the USA and it’s clear to see everywhere. It’s less obvious in the suburbs because of the lack of public transport and public places to hang out, but it’s there too.

I worked in the UDistrict in the late 1990s and there was just as much homelessness then - this is not a new phenomenon.