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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.

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[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 51 points 8 months ago (7 children)

jfc 18% is a huge increase. What is that compared to historical trends?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

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.

This is the "economy" that the Democrats ran on being a "good economy."

Two straight years of massive increases in homelessness, but the increases started, shocker, in 2020.

This is from the AP News article that AP themselves references for the 12% increase in 2023:

https://apnews.com/article/homelessness-increase-rent-hud-covid-60bd88687e1aef1b02d25425798bd3b1

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.

Jeff Olivet, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, a federal agency, said the extra assistance “held off the rise in homelessness that we are now seeing.” He said numerous factors are behind the problem.

In other words, homelessness was exploding in 2020 and then was hidden for two years because of government assistance that got some people through some hard times. Obviously it wasn't helping enough if homelessness was still growing during 2020-2022.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

What policy decisions or laws enacted by the Biden administration do you think caused this?

[–] metaldream@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 months ago

Politically it doesn't matter. You can't win an election by telling people the economy is great when they're struggling to afford groceries and people they care about are going homeless. Democrats sounded incredibly out of touch this cycle.

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