>>11457716So, as a former nonprofit executive who started as soon as the law allowed (I founded my first harm reduction and homeless outreach nonprofit corporation when I was 18 and living in san diego) there's a few things one must note about social and public health and safety issues regarding different cities: They tend to always be more than what they seem.
It might not appear so to the untrained eye - but homelessness in Dallas has - for the second consecutive year - increased by almost ten per cent. Many of this goes unseen due to a phenomenon known as "hidden homelessness" - this is a term referring to those who do not have a dwelling of their own, but instead rely on a place to stay (couch, shed, garage, etc.) with friends or acquaintances, or others, sleep in cars, or who may accumulate enough resources to sustainably stay nomadic using various areas of relative seclusion (read: parks) or similar 'campgrounds', rather than being in a centralized district, such as in Los Angeles, or other cities.
Dallas is no different than any other city in that the people who live here face economic challenges, but the actual number of individuals living on the street is not representative of the number of individuals who are homeless, necessarily, and in addition, because of the general sprawl of the metroplex, not as concentrated in one particular area for this reason, as well as a variety of reasons.
