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.

  • Cosmic Cleric
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    211 months ago

    What would stop the landlord from just kicking those people out?

    In California at least, laws.

    And in all the other states?

    I’ll move to each one of them and then report back to you on their laws. IANAL.

    OR, people in those States can push for laws in the same way that those in California did.

    • Flying Squid
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      311 months ago

      Ah, I see, so if people are able to change laws, they won’t get kicked out and it’s Biden’s fault those laws aren’t changed. Got it.

        • Flying Squid
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          111 months ago

          Are you able to talk to people without being rude? Because I just won’t respond to you again if you’re going to talk to me this way.

          • Cosmic Cleric
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            211 months ago

            Are you able to talk to people without being rude? Because I just won’t respond to you again if you’re going to talk to me this way.

            I’ve been nothing but polite. Straightforward, but polite.

            Be intellectually honest, and answer her questions, in the same way she pointed out to you that she answered your questions, after you challenged her for not answering your questions.

            Or do you only ask questions and not answer them?

            • Flying Squid
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              11 months ago

              Yet again, she asked me a question. I answered it. I linked to the question. The answer is no. Do you want me to change the answer to yes? Because that would be a lie. Sorry, I’m not going to lie to make you happy.