> Weird how New York City housed millions of poor immigrants at the turn of the century

Are you really comparing housing standards for the poor today vs 100 years ago? Unless your solution is to throw all poor people in filthy slums like its 1902 I don't see the point of your comment.

Weird how you haven't considered population density, or housing safety regulations, or the state of the economy, or the average productivity of immigrants looking for a better life at the turn of the century compared to the homeless in modern cities...

Almost as if comparing NYC 100 years ago to modern Seattle is total nonsense.