Working in an MSP taught me that the bureaucracy of big business is evil and anyone leading a small business is evil. If either component is insufficiently evil then the business ceases to operate. After meeting and dealing with so many owners, I’m a militant communist.
Former V Dash MSFT contractor here, multiple ‘tours of duty’, worked as a Executive Level Data Analyst for a different Fortune 500 company, later Co Lead of the whole Data Team for a massive nonprofit:
I am now an Anarchist, rofl.
That nonprofit I used to work for?
Well, after the last couple of months under Trump, something like half of their funding no longer exists, and it is now illegal to exist while being homeless, and with the incoming cuts from the ‘big beautiful bill’, we are gonna go from about 4-5 million homeless Americans to something closer to 20 million.
EDIT: 99% sure there is no more funding nor mandate for the PIT, Point In Time, count aimed at estimating the number of homeless in America … yeah that just won’t be reported anymore.
The PIT count itself was a methodological mess… by the last data that I had at that non profit, if you try to match the statistical profile of people asking us for help, vs the statistical profile of people the PIT count…actually counts?
Yeah, you need to multiply the PIT official number by somewhere between 3 and 5.
Its very hard to get a ‘representative sample’ of people are are often mobile, in hiding, or have no reliable way of being contacted, not to mention the PIT is just farmed out to non profits all around the country, who all have their own methodology as to who even counts as homeless… and then that all gets amalgamated with a lot of sighs and handwaving.
Even before Trump admin V2… Covid broke our data patterns. Before Covid, there was significant seasonality to our total requests for housing or assistance.
A year or two into Covid? Almost no more seasonality at all, just exponentially growing demand quarter after quarter.
The Trump admin / Republicans cutting Medicare and such, combined with their other policies, is going to create an American Holodomor, millions to ten + million Americans starving to death in the streets.
Working in an MSP taught me that the bureaucracy of big business is evil and anyone leading a small business is evil. If either component is insufficiently evil then the business ceases to operate. After meeting and dealing with so many owners, I’m a militant communist.
Former V Dash MSFT contractor here, multiple ‘tours of duty’, worked as a Executive Level Data Analyst for a different Fortune 500 company, later Co Lead of the whole Data Team for a massive nonprofit:
I am now an Anarchist, rofl.
That nonprofit I used to work for?
Well, after the last couple of months under Trump, something like half of their funding no longer exists, and it is now illegal to exist while being homeless, and with the incoming cuts from the ‘big beautiful bill’, we are gonna go from about 4-5 million homeless Americans to something closer to 20 million.
EDIT: 99% sure there is no more funding nor mandate for the PIT, Point In Time, count aimed at estimating the number of homeless in America … yeah that just won’t be reported anymore.
The PIT count itself was a methodological mess… by the last data that I had at that non profit, if you try to match the statistical profile of people asking us for help, vs the statistical profile of people the PIT count…actually counts?
Yeah, you need to multiply the PIT official number by somewhere between 3 and 5.
Its very hard to get a ‘representative sample’ of people are are often mobile, in hiding, or have no reliable way of being contacted, not to mention the PIT is just farmed out to non profits all around the country, who all have their own methodology as to who even counts as homeless… and then that all gets amalgamated with a lot of sighs and handwaving.
Even before Trump admin V2… Covid broke our data patterns. Before Covid, there was significant seasonality to our total requests for housing or assistance.
A year or two into Covid? Almost no more seasonality at all, just exponentially growing demand quarter after quarter.
The Trump admin / Republicans cutting Medicare and such, combined with their other policies, is going to create an American Holodomor, millions to ten + million Americans starving to death in the streets.