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
      277·
      11 months ago

      So if you don’t have a home, you can just take one.

      If you’re white and it’s owned by a black family, it counts as Stand Your Ground in Florida. Probably.

    • foggianism@lemmy.world
      201·
      11 months ago

      If owning guns and having no address isn’t the ultimate freedom, then I don’t know what is.