5. New York City
New York City is arguably the most famous city in the world, with competition only from the likes of iconic places such as London and Paris. Its skyline is dominated by huge skyscrapers and it is essentially an advertisement for the prosperity and riches of the United States. It is home to the likes of Central Park, Madison Square Gardens, Broadway, Wall Street, and the Statue of Liberty, so most people would probably assume that it wasn’t also the city with the biggest homeless problem in the country.
A large part of this problem comes from the fact that the price of homes, both to buy and rent, is incredibly high and rises at a staggering rate every single year. This means that many people simply cannot afford to rent a property anymore and are forced to move onto the streets, leading to up to 75,000 living rough on the street – a number so large that it accounts for 14% of all the homeless people living in the United States.
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