https://apnews.com/article/homelessness-population-count-2024-hud-migrants-2e0e2b4503b754612a1d0b3b73abf75f?taid=676edc62db443200010c35daThe 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.The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said federally required tallies taken across the country in January found that more than 770,000 people were counted as homeless — a number that misses some people and does not include those staying with friends or family because they do not have a place of their own.That increase comes on top of a 12% increase in 2023, which HUD blamed on soaring rents and the end of pandemic assistance. The 2023 increase also was driven by people experiencing homelessness for the first time. The numbers overall represent 23 of every 10,000 people in the U.S., with Black people being overrepresented among the homeless population.“No American should face homelessness, and the Biden-Harris Administration is committed to ensuring every family has access to the affordable, safe, and quality housing they deserve,” HUD Agency Head Adrianne Todman said in a statement, adding that the focus should remain on “evidence-based efforts to prevent and end homelessness.”
>>1371059Among the most concerning trends was a nearly 40% rise in family homelessness — one of the areas that was most affected by the arrival of migrants in big cities. Family homelessness more than doubled in 13 communities impacted by migrants including Denver, Chicago and New York City, according to HUD, while it rose less than 8% in the remaining 373 communities. Nearly 150,000 children experienced homelessness on a single night in 2024, reflecting a 33% jump from last year.Disasters also played a part in the rise in the count, especially last year’s catastrophic Maui wildfire, the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. More than 5,200 people were staying in emergency shelters in Hawaii on the night of the count. “Increased homelessness is the tragic, yet predictable, consequence of underinvesting in the resources and protections that help people find and maintain safe, affordable housing,” Renee Willis, incoming interim CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, said in a statement. “As advocates, researchers, and people with lived experience have warned, the number of people experiencing homelessness continues to increase as more people struggle to afford sky-high housing costs.”The numbers also come as increasing numbers of communities are taking a hard line against homelessness. Angered by often dangerous and dirty tent camps, communities — especially in Western states — have been enforcing bans on camping. That follows a 6-3 ruling last year by the Supreme Court that found that outdoor sleeping bans don’t violate the Eighth Amendment. Homeless advocates argued that punishing people who need a place to sleep would criminalize homelessness.
>>1371061There was some positive news in the count, as homelessness among veterans continued to trend downwards. Homelessness among veterans dropped 8% to 32,882 in 2024. It was an even larger decrease for unsheltered veterans, declining 11% to 13,851 in 2024. “The reduction in veteran homelessness offers us a clear roadmap for addressing homelessness on a larger scale,” Ann Oliva, CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, said in a statement. “With bipartisan support, adequate funding, and smart policy solutions, we can replicate this success and reduce homelessness nationwide. Federal investments are critical in tackling the country’s housing affordability crisis and ensuring that every American has access to safe, stable housing.”Several large cities had success bringing down their homeless numbers. Dallas, which worked to overhaul its homeless system, saw a 16% drop in its numbers between 2022 to 2024. Los Angeles, which increased housing for the homeless, saw a drop of 5% in unsheltered homelessness since 2023. 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 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.The numbers ticked up to about 580,000 in the 2020 count and held relatively steady over the next two years as Congress responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with emergency rental assistance, stimulus payments, aid to states and local governments and a temporary eviction moratorium.
>>1371059yawnhttps://childrenshealthwatch.org/homelessness-among-students-increases-137-under-trump-the-highest-in-years/https://www.streetroots.org/news/2020/10/21/losing-ground-how-trump-administration-has-reversed-us-housing-policy'https://districtsentinel.substack.com/p/homelessness-increased-every-year (under trump)
>>1371065you are ignoring reality. Homelessness was up 12% from '22 to '23 and up another 18% last year. Illegal immigration was a large part of that.You partisanship has rendered your critical thinking skills obsolete
>>1371071You're ignoring that Trump's policies are what caused the increase in homelessness in the first place.https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/cost-homelessness-will-spike-if-congress-adopts-trumps-2018-budget-proposalhttps://www.cbpp.org/blog/budget-exposes-trump-administrations-empty-rhetoric-on-homelessness-fair-housinghttps://www.cbpp.org/research/trump-budget-deeply-cuts-health-housing-other-assistance-for-low-and-moderate-income
>>1371059fuck I was going to post this >>1371065nope, biden and obongo's faults.
>>1371059>The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said federally required tallies taken across the country in January found that more than 770,000 people were counted as homeless777000 out of 346331044 people is 0.22435182%. So 0.22435182% of people in America are homeless. And you fags are caught up on seeing 18.1% and 12% in the article like it means something.
>>1371079And Biden couldn't fix this in the four years he was in?
>>1371107It took 3 for the full effects of Trump's to settle in. It'll probably take another 3 for Biden's impact to become apparent. Shit takes time to show because houses don't get built overnight and people's positions don't become stable overnight.
>>1371107Biden being president can't fix a narrow minority of Republicunt assholes in the House shouting, "No victories for Biden"But they know low iq shills will ignore this and blame Biden anyway.
>>1371123funny how a narrow minority of Democrats in the House never stopped a Republican from getting what he wanted. Case in point: Obama. Obama had a health care mandate and both houses of Congress and yet all he could finally come up with was the ACA. And of course, he blamed the Republican minority for not getting full single-payer health care for everyone.Face the facts for once: neither party wants anything for the average person. One party pretends to but always has an excuse for not getting it done.
>>1371129As opposed to the Republican health plan: Either>a. Leave it to the same kind of guy who just got shot for denying thousands of people coverage they need to liveor>b. A work in progress for the last two decades
>>1371129>funny how a narrow minority of Democrats in the House never stopped a Republican from getting what he wanted.So all Trump wanted to do first term was halving taxes for the rich and appointing judges? A narrow minority of Republicans can't pass anything, including Republican bills>Obama had a health care mandate and both houses of Congress and yet all he could finally come up with was the ACAWhat America deserves for negotiating in good faith with Republicunts. Their desire for money through private insurance made sure national insurance was off the table. Hows the country feeling about that now? I can't hear over their cheering on a guy who killed a private insurance CEO
Bidenomics: I give my neighbor a pound of corn meal, and he gives me a pound of rice. tRumpanomics: you gotta give me 1 1/2 pounds rice now, chhyNadian for my pound of corn, because I'm an astute business man. I don't know what "astute" means, but my ass lockers say I'm that. I think it means, like a stute tall.
>>1371161>chhyNadian
>>1371123Good post
>>1371129>Obama had a health care mandate and both houses of Congress and yet all he could finally come up with was the ACA.Do you not know what bluedog democrats were? They were the most conservative of the democrats, and there were like 10 of them back in 2009. Imagine 10 Joe Manchins, and they whittled down the ACA to the bandage solution that we have today. You want to complain about the ACA? Blame Joe Liebermann, the rest of the blue democrats, and every single republican.
>>1371258ACA made health insurance worse. It costs more and they won't deny preexisting conditions, however they still deny life saving care.
>>1371059Biden really has spent 4 years piledriving America into the ground
Murc's Law: The widespread assumption that only Democrats have any agency or causal influence over American politics.
>>1371287Well, Biden has proven not to have any agency, but his team of unelected beurucrats who have been making all his decisions for him the last 4 years really have screwed a bunch of stuff up, they caused more damage than just this homelessness crisis.
>>1371059This is just tracking population size increase
>>1371136The Republican plan is to repeal Obamacare and the Patients' Bill of Rights and have the hospitals and insurers self-regulate. Probably not the best idea as the market incentives in healthcare are uniquely predatory and insulated from regular market forces. We've seen how the healthcare industry acts without oversight. Obamacare is pretty shitty, but there are some improvements in it like preexisting condition protection, being able to stay on the family plan until 26, regulating that insurers must spend a minimum amount of income on care (rather than just denying every worthwhile treatment for shitty ones and making huge profit margins), cracking down on HMOs, and so on.
>>1371289The problem isn't with unelections, it's with democrat ones. I would support them if they made Mr Trump a president for life. Elections are only good when people are flawed, like democrats. Once you find the one bloodline, you don't need elections because anyone else will be worse than Mr Trump. Elections mean that democrats can grab power again and we must prevent that. No more elections while we have power RIGHT NOW.
>>1371059770k is a ridiculous underestimation. The true number is likely several times that. Most of the people on the streets have either drug abuse issues, mental health issues, or are dual-diagnosis (both drug & mental health issues). More affordable housing won't fix that for them. Addressing the fentanyl crisis directly would do more to fix the homeless problem.
Isn't Trump's solution to the homeless problem to ship them off to deportation camps?
>>1371477They should just get a job. Back in the old days, being homeless was an executable offense. That is the law of God working its way through society.
>>1371479It's because the price of housing is too damned high. NIMBYs, boomers, and private equity firms have driven the price of housing and rent through the roof. It's to the point where you have Chinese backed companies sweeping in and buying vast amounts of properties to drive up land costs. Most homeless actually do have jobs, it's just those jobs don't pay anywhere near enough. In most cities, even professionals are feeling the squeeze and are a sneeze away from ruin.
>>1371477No. It's to ship them off to blue states. Pleases his base and makes dems look incompetent.
>>1371479>They should just get a job.Unfortunately, it's not that simple. If it was, there'd be a *lot* less jobless.>That is the law of God I musta missed the one where moses came down with the tablets that proclaimed: Thou shalt have housing lest enact my wrath eneacted by third party idignation. Mayhaps you'd care to point this out?
>>1371277They shoudl just let healthcare be a free market. Abolish obamacare and medicare. Turn it over to the market forces. Remove the onerous regulations and oversights and that would drive down costs and drive up quality. What tards don't get is that insurance is entirely about risk management, regardless of what insurance it is. You outsource a big risk (surgery etc) to smaller payments based on risk levels. Being against profit for insurance is insane lefty bullshit. Being for a public option is mental illness. If people weren’t making profits why tf would thru work at providing anyone a service? Just because a service has high priorities towards life and limb doesn’t mean it’s excused from basic laws of economics or the increase in efficiency from privatizations.
>>1371791Imagine being brainwashed to think the free market should run healthcare. The point of healthcare is to save lives, not to make money.
