Opinion: Why are there so few homeless people in Western Europe?
Comparisons of United States and European politics and social welfare are weighted with natural American aversion to Bolshie big guvmint — plus, no one has ever been convinced by arguments from the other side, no matter how overwhelming the statistics.
I will instead just try to figure out the reasons for the fact — not conjecture, not on the one hand this, on the other hand that — that in Western Europe, there are essentially no homeless people. I spent five weeks traveling this summer — Dublin, the Scottish countryside, Glasgow, Edinburgh, three provinces in northern Spain, Toledo, Madrid. I was staying in the hearts of
In over a month, I saw just three apparently homeless people in the biggest cities in Ireland, Scotland and Spain. Fewer than the makeshift community you would find under a single freeway overpass in Los Angeles. I saw precisely zero homeless encampments.
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