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.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    And I’m sure you understand he literally didn’t become president while losing 10% of the popular vote, which is what you said. He lost the popular vote by 3.9% and that’s vastly different.

    And police racism wasn’t solved, so guess what’s going to happen when the guy who oversaw these protests is president again?