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TexasTowelie

(122,432 posts)
Sun Dec 25, 2016, 09:27 PM Dec 2016

Homelessness on the rise in Wyoming

Wyoming’s homeless population has grown amid the state’s economic downturn, bucking a national decline.

There has been a 14.1 percent increase in the number of homeless families since 2015, according to new figures from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

During a count performed on a single night in January, local agencies reported 857 people were homeless, a 48 percent increase from 2010.

Most of the people, 491, were living in transitional housing programs or in emergency housing. The remaining 366 were considered to be unsheltered, other words living in inadequate conditions such as cars, parks, and under highway bridges.

Read more: http://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/homelessness-on-the-rise-in-wyoming/article_6a558246-45ea-52f6-b7d3-c8782f0fb925.html

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Homelessness on the rise in Wyoming (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2016 OP
Go USA! Go USA! n/t RKP5637 Dec 2016 #1
Many moved up there for the fracking boom and then all of that oil and gas sent prices Dustlawyer Dec 2016 #2
And these are white people kimbutgar Dec 2016 #3

Dustlawyer

(10,531 posts)
2. Many moved up there for the fracking boom and then all of that oil and gas sent prices
Sun Dec 25, 2016, 09:48 PM
Dec 2016

through the floor. Time to move again, and again and again. Chase those jobs and keep voting for the ones who did it to you!

kimbutgar

(25,816 posts)
3. And these are white people
Sun Dec 25, 2016, 11:54 PM
Dec 2016

Not black or brown welfare moochers as Reich wing world refers to them.

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