One state accounted for close to a third of the nation’s homeless population, according to an annual report.
When analyzing the ratio of homelessness to state population, New York, Vermont, and Oregon had the highest rates in 2023. However, Washington, D.C. had an estimated 73 homeless individuals per 10,000 people, which was significantly higher than any of the 50 states. Homeless people by rac...
Homeless population in state still rising; A study conducted at shelters on one night every three years counted 6,300 people, more than twice the number counted in 1991.(NEWS)DeFiebre, ConradCollins, Terry
The homeless population of Lawrence and Douglas County has increased by 51% in one year — by far the largest increase in the state — according to numbers compiled in January but largely out of public view until recently. While debate about the ci...
While the homeless population is rising in the United States,the death rate among them is also rising.Alameda County in California is looking into the deaths of more than 800 homeless people from 2018 to 2020 and how they happened. According to a "homeless death report" issued last Tuesday ...
For example, consider the 2020 California wildfire season—the most severe wildfire season in state history. These wildfires resulted in hazardous amounts of smoke, and resultantly, air pollution. As California has the largest homeless population in the United States of America—with around 160,000...
More than half of the U.S. homeless population is scattered across the country's 50 biggest cities and their surrounding areas. 24 percent of them live in just two cities - New York and Los Angeles. Despite its considerable homeless population, New York has a very low rate of unsheltered...
Census Bureau, current population reports: Income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in the United States. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education. (2009). Overview of the McKinney-Vento homeless children and youth ...
The homeless population most visible to society at large issingle adults. And the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's definition of “homeless” – people living in shelters or places not meant for human habitation –excludes most families, who are usually unsafely “doubled up”...
Many in the state believe the current homeless population is grossly under-counted and underreported. Newsom quoted from aGreen Daysong: “After all, every homeless Californian,living on a boulevard of broken dreams,is a casualty of institutional failures—a person who’s fa...