Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent, report finds
Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent, report finds
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.
And...no one (people I know) believes me when I tell them who the homeless are. Every one just holds onto the concept that they are just mentally-ill people who need to be in an institution. When I explain that any person's mental health decreases the longer they live without a home, a job, and a family for support. Homeless people end up turning to drugs because they can't stand the fact that their ability has decreased so much that a drug-induced hallucination is better than reality.
52Y'all let me know when we're tired of the bullshit enough to get a "general strike" going. I'll bake the "cookies".
48They should vote for Trump, that'll work better right?
Fuck am I tired of reading about all the stupid ways Americans fuck themselves over and hand their money to the rich.
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