How to mislead with numbers.

The National Alliance to End Homelessness (who are those people) say on their website

Many people think of homelessness as strictly an urban phenomenon because homeless people are greater in number and are more visible in urban areas, but homelessness is pervasive in rural areas. The number of people who experience rural homelessness is unknown, but the last national count of homeless people found that 9 percent of homeless people live in rural areas.

Do they think 9% means something? Or do they just try to make us think it means something. About 25% of the total population lives in rural areas. Which kind of means that homeless is pretty much concentrated in urban areas.

When I see someone misuse numbers like that I figure that either they're stupid or they're just dishonest and they think we're stupid. Which catogory does The National Alliance to End Homelessness fit?

Wichita has a new proposal to fund a program to house the homeless

Wichita KS has just published their proposal to end homelessness.

The capital investment they are looking for is about 4 million to develop an office to administer the program. Annual operating costs of about 1.3 million -- half to operate the administration office and half to provide house to the chronically homeless.

Four million to build an office building. No investment in housing for the homeless.

The program consists of guaranteeing rent payments to landlords based on holdouts from signing up homeless to various disabled entitlement programs.

It's disgusting.