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archive.today • More Americans Are Ending Up Homeless—at a Record Rate - WSJ

The data so far this year are up roughly 11% from 2022, a sharp jump that would represent by far the biggest recorded increase since the government started tracking comparable numbers in 2007. The next highest increase was a 2.7% jump in 2019, excluding an artificially high increase last year caused by pandemic counting interruptions.

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“The Covid-relief funds provided a buffer,” said Donald Whitehead Jr., executive director at the National Coalition for the Homeless, an advocacy group. “We’re seeing what happens when those resources aren’t available.”

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[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

The biggest driver remains high housing costs, which are now taking a heavier toll following the wind down of pandemic-era relief spending and policies such as eviction moratoriums, according to advocates for the homeless.

As usual, it's the landlord problem at the heart of homelessness.

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Say the line, /u/wombat!

[-] TreadOnMe@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Damn who would have thought that Adam Smith was correct?

[-] Yllych@hexbear.net 32 points 1 year ago

no one ends up homeless, no one ends up hungry.

That there are people without a place to sleep or proper food to eat is a choice made by those with power

[-] DoghouseCharlie@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago

If it wasn't for milking the rent relief from covid I don't know where I'd be right now.

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

wow I wonder what happened in 2021. maybe the evictions moratoriam was a good idea??

[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

When it happened, the neoliberals were celebrating the end of the moratorium, and reveling at the prospect of people being evicted and ending up on the streets. I guess those demon fucks got what they wanted.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

They always get what they wanted. kitsuragi-depress

[-] wtypstanaccount04@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

No more handouts, Jack! biden-harbinger

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

May God damn America and have Satan's roaches feast on it's rotten, fetid corpse

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Try every elected representative for serial social murder.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Nothing to see here, everything is working as intended this-is-fine

[-] GarfieldYaoi@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

"But muh property values!"

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