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Apnews...?
AP Newswire is generally a good source of information yes, and while the person you are responding to is being bombastic, they're not materially wrong.
Everything AP presents here is presented in the tone of "this is the best we can do" and the idea that bringing us barely back to sustenance levels we were at before (there was certainly a big homeless problem in my city before COVID) is a "great" thing to be presenting as a winning campaign issue belies the real suffering many, many US citizens are currently suffering.
It's also choosing to make measurements and metrics that benefit the status quo instead of choosing different metrics that do show the real picture for citizens on the ground in the USA.
Does that mean it's fully propaganda. No, but it's inability to talk about the issue outside the prescribed accepted discourse presents a problem as it does not show the full picture. It's much like the Clinton campaign in 1992 pushing protestors at campaign events outside of the view of the television cameras. As long as it's not in the picture, it effectively doesn't exist.
Chomsky said it best:
I was wondering when APnews would be suspect in this sub... turns out it's when it veers outside the accepted discourse on lemmy... or doesn't appease them enough.
Status quo, hiding the "real" picture... unreal. All of this while providing absolutely no evidence contrary to anything in the article. Quality discussion.