Homelessness rates jumped by double-digits in 2024 as Americans battled to afford housing

[nmmi]

9. Reuters - Some more reasons from the report. Also, Black homelessness rate: 2.7 times the rate of all demographics

Last edited Fri Dec 27, 2024, 09:23 PM - Edit history (1)

combined.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-homelessness-rose-record-18-182345246.html

Black people, who made up 12% of the total U.S. population and 21% of the U.S. population living in poverty, represented 32% of all people experiencing homelessness, the data showed.

KEY QUOTES

"Our worsening national affordable housing crisis, rising inflation, stagnating wages among middle- and lower-income households, and the persisting effects of systemic racism have stretched homelessness services systems to their limits," the Department of Housing and Urban Development said.

It also noted "additional public health crises, natural disasters that displaced people from their homes, rising numbers of people immigrating to the U.S., and the end to homelessness prevention programs put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic."

Edited to add Somebody brought up population growth as a factor. According to Macrotrends, the U.S. population increased 0.50% from 2022 to 2023, and 0.53% from 2023 to 2024. So we're not talking about anything comparable to homelessness's increases, which rose 18% in one year and 33% in 2 years.[/edit]