The U.S is a massive country and many of the things foreigners from all over point out is how bad the homelessness is here especially in major cities. That being said what is it like in your country? Is it getting better?
Is it worse than the USA, better or the same?
Curious your thoughts
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No country in LATAM is doing worse than the USA in homelessness.
In a few areas of Mexico City we even have homeless people from the US that can only speak english. It was shocking at first but has become more common, especially in Condesa and around Reforma.
Waits for the Argentines to respond
If Americans stop gentrifying our towns and cities kicking us out of our homelands we wouldn’t have homeless issues on the mainland because we would be in Puerto Rico. Also Americans tell Trump to stop playing Russian roulette with the world economy! M’kay? No bueno!
Yes, homeless people are a problem here, there are hundreds of thousands of them and it is increasing every year.
I travel to the U.S. often for work, and one of the most shocking things to me was seeing so many huge homeless encampments right off the highways or on city streets. Some even had parked cars, and I saw people clearly homeless walking or biking along the sides of highways. I asked a coworker about it, and they said there are even huge shanty towns hidden in parks or under bridges.
Another thing that surprised me is how normalized living in your car seems to be becoming in the U.S. I don’t usually get much English content on my YouTube feed, but lately, I’ve been seeing videos where people are either glamorizing or trying to justify living in their car or van. And I’m not talking about the people traveling the country in fancy, custom built vans. I mean regular people doing it because they can’t afford housing.
In Mexico, homelessness exists, but it’s mostly hidden and out of sight, you might see a small group living on the street, but you don’t see the kind of large scale encampments that you do in the U.S. In my neighborhood, there was a fairly large group of Haitian and Venezuelan refugees living on the street for a while, but it was more organized. They were actively looking for work or waiting on legal status in Mexico or abroad.
Hmmm, it’s never a subject touched upon elections, neither is drug addiction. I guess that could tell you something. There are beggars, of course. When I went to Brasil, specifically Belo Horizonte, and saw that homeless people (I presume junkies) were in every corner, (I saw one taking a shit in front of a building of an upper-middle class neighbourhood) I realized we don’t have a problem like that. People live in extemely precarious homes though…
Unfortunately, it’s a problem that’s getting worse here, especially in the historic center, which is supposed to be one of the best-protected areas of the country. The number of people affected by drugs is also getting out of hand.
Anyway, we’re still far from reaching the level of the US. I still remember the first time I visited in 2018 and I couldn’t believe that the richest country in the world had such a severe homelessness crisis.
In Mexico it is not a big problem whatsoever, INFONAVIT takes care of that, it may be small ugly houses, but if you are a worker and want to, you’ll be able to get a house eventually no matter what
Not bad, usually in LATAM countries like Mexico the social networks or family ties are way stronger and will not let you go homeless, it is rare to see them and more often than not it is by choice.
In Montevideo yeah, it’s definitely an issue. But what makes it even worse is that there are more empty homes than homeless people.