2025-06-20 11:11:35 AM



Q: Do we have a problem with Homelessness in Portland Oregon? If so, how can we solve it?
So, perhaps ask a 3x former US Reprenstative candidate with a year of experience living on the streets in 2004 while sober studing 3 dimensional, and 4 DIMENSIONAL (collision detection), math.
Here is my page of interest from the US 2020 Census on the matter:
https://data.census.gov/table/DECENNIALDHC2020.H3?d=DEC+Demographic+and+Housing+Characteristics
You see, my internet research skills which started with Windows 3.11 for Workgroups and continued through 20+ years of professional software engineering and over a decade of political campaigning (not armchair politics but IN THE RACE / ON THE BALLOT), have done some good.
You can apply my technique that I leaned on the web just now to remove the commas from the census report in Excel or your favorite data crunching program, to do some AUTO-SUM or other calculations on the raw data. You should find, as I did, that approximately 10% of housing units in the USA, about 13,000,000 places, are VACANT at any point in time.
Yet we spend millions, if not BILLIONS of dollars to fight this problem, employing all kinds of people to be condensending to these people who smell bad on the bus because of the generosity of the people of this, and likely other cities around the world, who just love politicians, business as usual, and corporations who organize to build automobiles with evil computer automation which your presidential candidate knows how to code, absolutely.
It must be some complicated system of getting these cars made so people can get to the office to help these poor lost souls get some toilet paper.
-- I get a little snarky at this problem and all of its publicity backed by pure logic.