America's Homeless Population on the Rise According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's latestreport on homelessnessin the United States, 653,104 Americans were homeless in 2023. Last year,levels of homelessnessclimbed for the sixth year. While in 2017 and 2018, growth ...
One of the fastest-growing sectors of the unhoused population is senior citizens, as people in their 60s and 70s. They get priced out of the market and they wind up unhoused. Jake Tapper Even so, the state of California is trying to tackle mental health and substance abuse by ...
Recent data points to a troubling rise in homelessness in the U.S., as 2024 marked a record high for the number of people who were without permanent shelter on a single night in 2024. The U.S. homeless population rose to more than 771,000 on a single night counted in l...
The largest increase North Carolina has experienced is with the unsheltered homeless population, Agard said. “These are our most vulnerable people, and that increase was 31.4% from 2023 to 2024. There are over 4,500 [North Carolinians] in 2024 who were counted as unsheltered. ...
Counting the Homeless in Papua New Guinea 2024 Population and Housing Censusdoi:10.38140/ijrcs-sc-2023.vol5.01Ige, Olugbenga AdedayoAmosun, Peter A.Lotu, LogoInterdisciplinary Journal of Rural & Community Studies
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...
be overrepresented among the homeless population: around 32 percent of people experiencing homelessness are Black despite making up only 12 percent of the U.S. population, according to HUD, which also found that the share of homeless people who identify as Black decreased from 37 percent in ...
People in marginalized groups are particularly vulnerable to falling into homelessness: Black people represent only 8% of Los Angeles’ population but make up34% of the city’s unhoused population. Centuries of American history contribute to this overrepresentation, including decades of racist housing...
Imagine trying to sleep outside when it feels like 20 below. This weekend, hundreds of people in the Twin Cities metro will have to do just that.
One state accounted for close to a quarter of the nation’s homeless population, according to an annual report.