You can move to a new state or city to look for services. If you become homeless anywhere in the USA, you are more likely to wind up in a west coast city eventually looking for fair weather and services. In contrast, in China you can’t just move from your poor village to Shanghai and expect help and to not be harassed by police. They at best will just put you on a bus back to your poor village. Even worse, you could have been born in Shanghai but are still considered an illegal immigrant because your parents didn’t have Shanghai hukou. You can be deported to a poor village that you’ve never been to before.

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Ericson2314 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah agreed. I just meant having the provinces operator the services is like here. Hukuo is not like here.

(Though there is a funny internet joke that American NIMBYs want hukuo at home.)

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seanmcdirmid 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Living in Seattle, I have to admit that I’ve thought of wanting hukou before. We will never solve our homeless problem if the more local resources we apply to it and the better we do, the worse the problem gets (because who doesn’t want to show up to get that free housing).

	▲	Ericson2314 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is an advantage of pursuing cheap market rate over insatiable section 8 and LIHTC subsidies, yes.