Despite previous increases, the number of people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January when the count is carried out had always stayed below Great Recession levels, which had been highest in 2007 when the data was first reported. The 2023 number now retired that record, surpassi...
Homelessness in America was already a massive crisis before the COVID-19 pandemic and the past two years have made the situation even worse. With evictions now rising after the end of a federal moratorium and an ongoing lack of affordable housing, more and more individuals and families are fa...
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Report: COVID-19 Worsened the Obesity Epidemic More ottoblotto|Getty Images In 2020, 16 states had adult obesity rates at or above 35%, up from 12 states the previous year. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the nation's obesity epidemic, according to a new report. ...
Navigating sidewalks in wheelchairs and walkers, the aging homeless have medical ages greater than their years, with mobility, cognitive and chronic problems like diabetes. Many contracted COVID-19 or couldn’t work because of pandemic restrictions. ...
The report’s most shocking revelation is that the number of homeless people in families with children rose 39% year-on-year—a reversal of a slow but steady decline in the years preceding the covid-19 pandemic. Three big things contributed to the surge: a housing shortage that has driven...
Yet events that cloud the country’s history and its more immediate past – from slavery, Jim Crow and redlining to the murder of George Floyd and the disproportionate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic – illustrate how the path to realizing that promise isn’t the same for everyone. ...
Economic uncertainty and instability after the COVID-19 pandemic combined with record levels of inflation, interest rates, and housing prices, as well as the subsequent drawdown of government support programs that coincided with the end of the public health emergency, has made the homelessne...
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COVID-19 enlarged the social inequalities and moved millions back into deep poverty, increasing the number of families struggling with homelessness and severe food insecurity throughout the region [9]. A worse scenario is still expected across most countries in South America, where hospitals have ...