Letter: In Europe, families keep homeless count down
I wholeheartedly agree with Linda Umstead (“Fewer homeless seen in places outside America,” Star-Advertiser, Letters, Dec. 13). My husband, born in Eastern Europe, said that families are much tighter and feel responsibility for each other. They live in crowded multi-generational homes sometimes from birth to death.
Not to say that there aren’t beggars on the streets occasionally, but not the homeless encampments we see all over the U.S.
I also agree on the issue of guns. It’s not the same internationally.
Linda Nikcevich
Kailua
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