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Charlie Smirkley
@charliesmirkley
Politics + data + charts + randomness 📉 + nonsense
Mar 16 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
NYC spends more per homeless person than the median NYC household earns. $81,705 per person in FY2025.

And $81,705 is a floor. It excludes supportive housing (~$500M/yr), mental health response teams, and NYPD encampment costs.

The city projects ~$97K per person in FY2026. NYC spending per street homeless person from FY2019 to FY2025 with FY2026 projected. Blue solid line rises from $28,428 in FY2019 to $81,705 in FY2025 — higher than the median NYC household income of ~$76,000. Dashed blue extension projects ~$97,000 in FY2026. Black dashed line shows inflation-adjusted real dollars ending at $65,890. Black note box states this is a floor estimate excluding supportive housing (~$500M/yr), mental health co-response teams, and NYPD costs. Bottom stats: population +26%, total spending +262%. Source: NY State Comptroller DiNapoli, March 2026. Spending per homeless person since 2019:
NYC +187%, SF +190%, PDX +430%, LA +480%. Average: +320

Floor estimates.

Homeless pop over same period: +13%

Spending up ~320%. Problem up ~13%. Homeless spending since 2019 has surged.
Feb 16 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
GSS data on politics by ancestral origin, grouped into “Heritage American” tiers among early Euro settlers/immigrants + all others:

A: English, Scottish, German, Dutch
B: French, Scandi, Swiss, Austrian, Belgian
C: Italian, Irish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Russian
D: All others heritage Americans and Politics and Party ID Not only are heritage Americans the most conservative, but individually the Dutch, English, Germans, and Scots are the most conservative.

Note where the natural conservative Indians are: second last. Conservative, moderate, and liberal by ethnicity
Jul 8, 2025 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
You will not believe these charts on male youth crime in Germany by nationality. (If a group isn't included in a chart, it's because the data was N/A.)

1. Algerian male juveniles are 50.52 times more likely to be suspects in Street Crime than Germans. Algerian youth are 50.52 times more likely to be suspects in Street Crime than German 2. Algerian male juveniles are 73.54 times more likely to be suspects in theft crime than Germans. Algerian male youth are 73.54 times more likely to be suspects in theft crime than Germans.