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
        1•10 months ago

        Insulting me will not make me accept a ludicrous premise. If you told me that Martians are eating my eyeballs, why would it be hypocritical or cowardly for me to say I didn’t accept that premise when you asked me?

            • Cosmic Cleric
              2•10 months ago

              What am I dodging? In specific?

              Scroll up.

              That question is another dodge, and everyone can see it as such.

                • Cosmic Cleric
                  2•10 months ago

                  Don’t move the goal posts. Go back to her comment and your reply about answering questions. Just scroll up, you’ll find them there.

                  • Flying Squid
                    1•10 months ago

                    Once again, I answered the question. I linked to the question. I told you the answer.