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.

      • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 months ago

        Ever since 2016, people’s ability to detect sarcastic comments without the “/s” tacked on has just fucking gone out the window. People are just taking comments at face value and assuming the worst in each other anymore. I kind of get it sometimes though, there does seem to be alot of stupid people online, though in some cases it’s like people are purposefully misinterpreting comments. It’s so weird.

        • lucidinferno@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          You’re jumping to conclusions. I didn’t take it at face value. I thought it was sarcasm at first and was going to respond in kind, but then I dug into what the “person” usually commented. Every single comment seems the same. Unless it’s purely a troll account, it’s not someone being sarcastic.

      • lucidinferno@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        My native language is sarcasm. A sarcastic comment here and there I expect, but every single one? C’mon.

        And that attempt at humor with the autism comment wasn’t remotely funny. Downright ignorant.