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•11 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•11 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•11 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•11 months ago

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

                  • Cosmic Cleric
                    2•11 months ago

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

                    No, you did not.

                    You have not answered any of my questions. I asked you multiple questions and you didn’t answer a single one. Not even the one where I asked you what you personally have done about unionizing renters.

                    So I have no idea why you think I would answer your question.

                    Do the courtesy of responding to her questions in the same way that she responded to yours, because your last comment was that you were going to respond to her questions because you thought they weren’t worth responding to (and hence my original comment to you).

                    It’s just an Internet forum. It’s not like people are going to come to your home and shame you by laughing in your face or something. We’re just discussing / debating topics here.