The number of homeless people counted across the country on a single night in January 2024 soared by 18% over a year-earlier ...
Homelessness in the United States soared to the highest level on record, according to government data released Friday.
A record-breaking 771,480 people in the U.S. are experiencing homelessness on a single night in 2024, the government says.
"It's just one point in time. It's a picture, a photograph, as opposed to a video" Ruege said.
The rise was driven by unaffordable housing, inflation, systemic racism, natural disasters and rising immigration.
The report attributed the historically high number to several factors, including a multi-year surge in home prices and a ...
Oregon was the lone state in which officials opted not to conduct a new count of people living unsheltered in nearly all its ...
Veterans were the lone group among whom homelessness declined last year, and the number of homeless veterans is down more ...
A report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development shows homelessness rose 18% in 2024, with causes including ...