More than 770,000 people were living in shelters or outside in January, according to an annual federal report on homelessness by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The number is up 18% from last year’s count — which had also jumped from the year before — and is the largest number since HUD started doing this report in 2007.
HUD released its report Friday, based on the January “point-in-time” survey in cities around the country. The results punctuated a trend advocates for homeless people and affordable housing have been highlighting. . . .
Homelessness in the United States soared to the highest level on record, according to government data released Friday.
More than 770,000 people experienced homelessness in 2024, an 18% increase from 2023, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development reported. It was the largest annual increase since HUD began collecting the data in 2007 (excluding the jump from 2021 to 2022, when the agency didn’t conduct a full count due to the Covid-19 pandemic).
The surge in homelessness was driven by a lack of affordable housing, a rise in migrants seeking shelter and natural disasters, which caused some people to be displaced from their homes, the report said. . . .
Long term homelessness is not caused by housing prices.
However short term homelessness sometimes is.
While these articles conflate the two, I have no reason to doubt the HUD figures and I note it is plausible that, if this is a short term upswing, then it is not unreasonable to suggest housing prices are a factor.
Yes, I was already preparing it. (Just a little slow today)
Long term homelessness is not caused by housing prices.
However short term homelessness sometimes is.
While these articles conflate the two, I have no reason to doubt the HUD figures and I note it is plausible that, if this is a short term upswing, then it is not unreasonable to suggest housing prices are a factor.
When people are irresponsible in their sex lives, have children out of wedlock or can not find happiness in their marriage, lovingly raising their children into adulthood along the path of education, the probability of homelessness greatly increases.
Does the fact that most of the time, people who are homeless and poor come from single parent families, mean that single parenting is the cause of homelessness and poverty?
Yes, they won’t build homes in Cal. Need to make a building permit 50$ and easy to get in a month or so. Lower property taxes. Open up areas to build without a massive eco review.
And in Cal they lost 25 billion for money for the homeless. So, apparently lots of folks are getting rich in blue states pretending to do something for the homeless.
Maybe NPR should print these stories before the election to inform their public that the dems policies fail…
Imagine if instead of opening the floodgates at our southern border we had used the wasted resources on solving our indigenous homeless population problem.
The Federal Reserve owns over $2.2trillion in mortgages.
Every penny of that is a welfare program to artificially susidize home prices (keep them unaffordably high.)
Free Market:"Home prices should be ‘X.’ " Fed:“We HATE the free market, Home prices are too cheap we must raise them.”
Since the Biden admin came in you started seeing the homes with 8 cars again in Cal. Basically, flop houses. With all those people they can pay high rents. See how open borders drives up rents making Americans poorer. Seems to be the goal of the left.
