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Homeless population compared to general population - In a paragraph explain how the statistics

of the homeless population and general population differ by race? Are there any given reasons

why the statistics are different for different races?

Congress is based on a single night in January 2018, because people enter and leave homelessness, so talking about a fixed population is difficult.

On that night, 48.9% of all the 552,830 people counted as homeless were white. But 72% of the population, according to HUD, is white (although as they don't break out non-Hispanic white as the Census Bureau does, the 72% may be overstated). So, whites are underrepresented among the homeless. That shouldn't be a surprise. They're also underrepresented among the poor, although they form the largest group of impoverished people.

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African Americans, who make up about 13% of the general population, were 39.8% of homeless people during the count, or triple their percentage of the population. Native Americans are heavily overrepresented among the homeless, being 1.5% of the population but 2.8% of the homeless. It's not as great a degree of overrepresentation as African Americans but still almost double. Pacific Islanders are about 0.5% of the population but 1.5% of the homeless.

Men and boys, at 60.2%, were an enormous percentage of the homeless in comparison to women and girls at 39.1%. Transgender people, while about 0.6% of the population, were 0.7% of the homeless. As for gender nonconforming, they were 0.3% of the homeless, but I've yet to find seemingly reliable statistics that show their percentage of the general population.