I genuinely don’t know and would prefer getting perspectives from Lemmy rather than just reading generic facts. (Sorry if this seems lazy!)
I ask because China is communist, and sometimes I am afraid of some policies in China, like lack of free speech or free press. But I also think poverty and homelessness are a great evil and don’t know to what extent China has stopped this.
When I visited Beijing, we passed through a shantytown–people living in huts made out of whatever debris they could find, such as corrugated metal sheets. So I’d call that homeless.
As a libertarian I appreciate their government’s not razing all that shit, and just letting people do what they need to do.
A friend of mine is homeless in SF. His mental health has dropped significantly ever since the city forcibly moved him from the spot where he was camping to a shelter. He says he was doing much better in the tent than in the shelter.
Oh, they razed all that shit when it came time for the Olympics in Beijing.