Rents over the last two decades have risen much faster than employee pay, contributing to an escalating homelessness crisis in the U.S.

A growing number of Americans are ending up homeless as soaring rents in recent years squeeze their budgets.

According to a Jan. 25 report from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, roughly 653,000 people reported experiencing homelessness in January of 2023, up roughly 12% from the same time a year prior and 48% from 2015. That marks the largest single-year increase in the country’s unhoused population on record, Harvard researchers said.

  • HipHoboHarold@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Just a reminder that immigration has actually been going down for awhile, but the inflation only went up. I know you hate Hispanic people, but the people you love are screwing you over as well. They don’t know you exist, let alone love you back.