Saturday, April 17, 2021
For those that think homeless people migrate to warmer climates....
....here is a scatterplot of the Census 2017 homeless count per capita against mean January temperature by state:See a correlation? No? That's because there isn't one.(Note: y-axis was previously mislabeled).Update: David Albouy asked me to look after controlling for urbanization. Here is what I got:Homeless people do tend to congregate in more urbanized states. But again, climate has nothing to do with propensity for homelessness.
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