I assume that number doesn't cover people living in cars, hotels, and couch-surfing?

It's headlines like this one that make me want to start throwing stuff whenever someone makes the argument that the left is undermining the democrats by refusing to be satisfied with whatever crumbs they're throwing us this week. Everyone knows the Republicans suck, so criticizing the one party that still pretends to be accountable to its ostensible constituents for not doing enough to help those constituents should be a reasonable thing to do. The only rub here is that the Democratic leadership does not want to actually help, does not want to be held accountable, and doesn't want to be criticized, and so they've managed to convince their followers that reflecting on what's actually happening to society's most vulnerable is treasonous empowerment of the Republicans, who are the enemy but also reasonable people whom we still need to work with.

Nothing here is new, I'm just updating everyone on my slow slide into incoherence as I continue to gaze into the abyss.

Quoting the article:

“No American should face homelessness, and the Biden-Harris Administration is committed to ensuring every family has access to the affordable, safe, and quality housing they deserve,” HUD Agency Head Adrianne Todman said in a statement, adding that the focus should remain on “evidence-based efforts to prevent and end homelessness.”

Have they forgotten that the Biden-Harris Administration was (and still is), the one in charge ?
How does such an increase in homelessness show the commitment they said they have on fixing this issue ? It obviusly shows the opposite, that they don't care about it.

Is this really where journalism is at !?

Now if we can just keep this rate up there will be 770000*1.181^76 = 238 billion homeless Americans by end of century. Matt Yglesias will be pleased

I can't believe Trump would do this. His 8 years in the White House has been a disaster, and it's only going to get worse over the next 4 years.

But I was told to look at the graphs and see how good everything is. I wonder if the graphdorks will look at this one, or if they have some bs reason to dismiss this one like they do with all the other ones they don't like.

Wow I knew things were getting worse but that's a staggering figure.

libs saving these statistics for January 20th when the economy is bad again.

Clearly this has nothing to do with housing affordability.

Meanwhile, in bad country where everyone shares one spoon

Since 2020, my local food bank has gone from free food, to rate limiting families to a set quantity of food per month, to now means-testing applicants to receive food after the end of this month.

But did you know?!?! The 0.01% have tripled their net worth since then! The economy is THRIVING! GDP!!!!!!

Even in terms of per-capita that's really bad

Meanwhile giving Ukraine and Israel hundreds of billions of dollars

FUCK amerikkka

It's also WAY HIGHER than 770k. USA cooks tf outta that book

Richest country in the world btw

That comes out to 245 people per county on average. and that 770k figure is from Jan of 2024

We did it, reddit.

Shithole country

adding that the focus should remain on “evidence-based efforts to prevent and end homelessness.”

You don't need "evidence-based" approaches for obvious shit like building dense walkable neighbours and increasing lower class incomes.

i believe it our trans housing shit is swamped

You know what people don't understand? If you don't use pictures in your comments, you can't be taken seriously.