One state accounted for close to a quarter of the nation’s homeless population, according to an annual report.
Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), who perform an annual count of the nation’s homeless population by individually counting the homeless in shelters and on the street, the estimated homeless population in 2022 was around 582,462 people, a decrease from the 647,258 homeless ...
The cities and surrounding counties with the largest population of people experiencing homelessness were New York City (88,025) andLos Angeles(71,320), followed by Seattle (14,149), San Diego (10,264) and Denver (10,054). New York Cityexperienced the largest increase in the number of peo...
Share of population without access to health services in Mexico 2022, by state Share of Ugandans who lacked access to affordable and nutritious food 2010-2019 Number of people living below the poverty line in the U.S. by age 2010 Mexico: share of people without access to social security by...
POPULATION healthHEALTH services accessibilityEMERGENCY medical servicesHOMELESS personsSEMI-structured interviewsObjective: to understand the homeless population's perception about access to the health services. Method: the study has a qualitative approach of a descriptiv...
The U.S. homeless population rose to more than 771,000 on a single night counted in late January 2024, according to the latest release of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’sAnnual Homelessness Assessment Report. The number equates to an 18% increase over 2023’s total...
California had 181,399 homeless people in January 2023, an increase of 5.8 percent from 2022, according to a national report released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last December. According to the report, California's homeless population accounted for 28 percent of the...
San Mateo County's official point-in-time homeless count, a snapshot census taken in one day of the county's unhoused population, found an 18 percent increase from the count conducted in 2022.
With all that said, though, Lawrence did not have the fastest-growing homeless population in the country, and of course, it is nowhere close to having the largest in terms of actual numbers. Lawrence’s growth rate of 51% would rank it as the 33rd-fastest-...
California, the most populous state in the U.S., continued to have the nation's largest homeless population, followed by New York, Washington, Florida and Massachusetts. The sharp increase in the homeless population over the past two years contrasts with success the U.S. had been havin...