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.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I see. So the responsibility for this rests solely on Biden’s shoulders and you don’t have to do anything but talk about it on the internet. Convenient.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
      03·
      10 months ago

      🙄

      Some responsibility rests on Biden’s shoulders, far more than on mine or yours. You’re seemingly absolving him, as if blaming him for anything is wrong.