Homelessness increased by more than 12% in 2023, reaching 653,104 people according to@USHUD—the sharpest increase and biggest population of homeless people in the US since the government began keeping these records. Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union” withJake Tapper, Los Ang...
Homelessness in America reached a new record earlier this year partly due to a "sharp rise" in the number of people who became homeless for the first time, federal officialssaidFriday. More than 650,000 people experienced homelessness on a single night in January, a 12% jump from 2022, t...
In 2023, nearly half of the people experiencing homelessness were white, while the number of Black homeless people exceeded 243,000. How many veterans are homeless in America? The number of homeless veterans in the United States has halved since 2010. The state of California, which is...
The number ofhomeless veteransin America dropped to its lowest level on record this year, down more than 55% over the last 14 years, according to data released by the Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday. The improvement comes after three years ofaggressive efforts by department leadersto q...
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Homelessness has been a persistent crisis in the United States. Over the years, politicians have done little to tackle the problem. An increasing number of Americans are living on the streets. Poverty, unemployment, diseases, drug addiction, deaths... These are parts of their daily life....
While homelessness is a global phenomenon, research on homelessness skews heavily towards high-income nations such as those in North America, Europe, and Australia. The academic publishing sector also highly privileges articles written in English. Therefore, homelessness in the g...
On a given day more than half a million people are homeless in America (The US Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2018). There has been a slowdownward trend in the percent of people experiencing homelessness over the last decade; however this decline has been minimal the past few...
Wages and housing costs have diverged so dramatically that, for a growing number of Americans, the dream of a middle-class life has gone from difficult to impossible. As I write this, there are only a dozen counties and one metro area in America where a full-time minimum wage worker can...
But what is the true state of homelessness in the U.S.? Here are 10 facts about homelessness in America: 1. Although homelessness increased slightly – by 0.3% – between 2017 and 2018, it's been on a general downward trend for the past decade, according to theNational Alliance to En...