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.

  • mr_robot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 months ago

    You say that like Trump’s biggest legislative accomplishment wasn’t a massive tax cut for the wealthiest Americans.

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

      That’s not true, he also accelerated the decline of America and turned many of America’s allies against us.

      Also he had that handsome hamburger party that one time. That was pretty funny, probably his favorite day of being president.