Rents over the last two decades have risen much faster than employee pay, contributing to an escalating homelessness crisis in the U.S.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11260607

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.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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      6 个月前

      Don’t worry folks the Supreme Court is about to rule that homeless can be fined for being homeless and then cities will jail homeless and they won’t be homeless nomore /s

  • Icalasari@kbin.social
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    7 个月前

    So when do we get to the part where people start burning down the properties in a case of, “Well if you want all the land, then you can have its charred remains”?

  • workerONE@lemmy.world
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    7 个月前

    The article is new but it’s citing data that’s a year old.

    "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. "

      • P1r4nha@feddit.de
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        7 个月前

        At least inflation rate went down, but with ever increasing rental cost the picture probably doesn’t look much better.

        EDIT: Added “rate” to avoid any confusion that I may suggest there’s deflation.

        • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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          7 个月前

          Inflation didn’t even go down, it’s just increasing at a slower rate. Things are still getting more expensive compared to how much money people have available.

          That might be what you meant, but just wanted to make it crystal clear…

          • mars296@kbin.social
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            7 个月前

            What you are describing is inflation going down. Things going back to pre-pandemic prices would be deflation. With the government targeting 2% inflation in an ideal situation, deflation is not going to happen.

            • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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              7 个月前

              Going down is a misleading term that makes it sound like it IS deflation, though.

              “Slowing down” would be much more illustrative, or at least “decreasing”