Very visual in an unusual form

Very visual in an unusual form

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Not charts and graphs, here, but drawings of people in this December 2019 story.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/22/us/los-angeles-homeless-black-residents.html

It does a great job of making the numbers clear, for example two side-by-side illustrations of 15 out of 200 black Angelinos being homeless, next to 2 out of 200 other sorts of Angelinos. The contrast is stark.

Photos of tents on the street make it clear that we can see the homelessness. Maps showing changing demographics explain the whys behind what's happening now. Snaps of the one individual who is the example in the story, his homes (a house he grew up in, a car he and his dog lived out of) keep it personal. All the elements focus on the goal of making the situation a very real, almost felt experience backed up by solid data.