The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts of the country, federal officials said Friday.
jfc 18% is a huge increase. What is that compared to historical trends?
The sharp increase in the homeless population over the past two years contrasts with success the U.S. had been having for more than a decade.
Going back to the first 2007 survey, the U.S. made steady progress for about a decade in reducing the homeless population as the government focused particularly on increasing investments to get veterans into housing. The number of homeless people dropped from about 637,000 in 2010 to about 554,000 in 2017.
But…but…the unemployment rate is so low. They must actually want to be homeless. /s
shit, where i live, even UNaffordable housing is out of reach. there is fucking nothing on the market.
Mega corps buying up all the housing properties surely has nothing to do with rising housing costs…
Yikes. That is brutal to see.
