This is going to affect mostly black people/other minorities.
For once, it probably won't. The most recent surge in homeless people is from fentanyl which is primarily affecting white people recovering from heroin addiction.
White America is currently going through its own crack era. Of course some black people are victims of fentanyl, but this tends to be accidental from the pursuit of cocaine. This is a stark contrast to white people that voluntarily chase fentanyl because it's cheaper than heroin or because it mirrors their expensive white pharmaceutical drugs.
Black people are anywhere from 31% to 40% of the homeless population. This will disproportionately affect Black people. I already know the citrus sapien has his reticle set on Skid Row.
@yardman , I think relying on the proportion here is silly because the percentage of homeless people and even black homeless people is an extremely small sample size of our larger populations. It's been a long time since I was in a statistics course, but I recall our professor telling us the raw numbers are more important to reduce statisticalmanamolies. To give you an idea of what I mean, homelessness affects 0.45% of the 40 million black population. And that's when using your 30% number of the overall homeless population.
There are only 600,000 homeless people in a country of 340 million housed people. Trying to claim any wider meaning or connection to the greater black population from this tiny sample size is a dubious proposition. We would never try to use such wide-ranging assumptions in other areas like health, population statistics or pharmaceuticals, with such a infinitismally small sample size of a larger group.
In a situation like this, the raw numbers would need to be studied in isolation. You get a lot of statistical anomalies when you trying to draw conclusions from such a small group.