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At least here in vancouver, if you go to east hastings almost every single homeless person is either white or indigenous, despite the official data saying something different. I know why indigenous face these issues, but why so many white people? Is it because most of them originated in a rural area and moved here? The homeless demographic looks completely different than the demographic of the city itself.

Hop the border to seattle and it seems like homeless people are usually black or latino, which makes a lot more logical sense to me.

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

I've notice this also. Where we are in lower mainland the population is a lot Indian and a lot Asian and White, but the homeless people are all white.

My thought was culture. White folk are focuses on independence and asking for help or relying on others is weakness. So people fail hard.

Indian culture is often multi generational families, which provides a different family dynamic growing up.

Asian could be similar, or the over achie lvement expectation being pushes so you just wouldn't be accepted at home for drug use etc.