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A 2022 study found that differences in per capita homelessness rates across the country are not due to mental illness, drug addiction, or poverty, but to differences in the cost of housing due largely to housing shortages, with West Coast cities including Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Los Angeles having homelessness rates five times ...
Homeless (average day) Data year Homeless per 10,000 Unsheltered per 10,000 Main article, other notes Afghanistan: 360,000 2023 [4] 87.6 Albania: 32,000 2020 [5] 113 Algeria: 15,000 2008 [6] 4.3 Homelessness in Algeria. The figure consists of children only. Argentina: 3,600,000 2020 [7] 793 Australia: 122,494 2021 [8] 48.0 Homelessness in ...
The official homeless population counts by state, 2019 As COVID-era protection programs expired and a cost-of-living crisis hit the country, homelessness numbers rose, surpassing 2007 Great Recession levels in 2023. [1]
The US Cities With the Most Homeless People. More than 650,000 Americans were homeless in 2023, the latest number available from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.After a period of ...
A recent Brookings Metro study says rising cost of housing in Columbus and across the country plays a role in homelessness. Columbus better than most cities on homelessness, but problem persists ...
An analysis of HUD data suggests that states with higher housing prices have higher rates of homeless people. A map of America’s homeless problem reveals the best and worst states for affordable ...
In a 2022 book titled “Homelessness is a Housing Problem,” Clayton Page Aldern (a policy analyst and data scientist in Seattle) and Gregg Colburn (an assistant professor of real estate at the University of Washington’s College of Built Environments) studied per capita homelessness rates across the country along with what possible factors ...
The 2022 book Homelessness is a Housing Problem looks at per capita homelessness rates across the country, and what factors influence the rates. It concludes that high rates of homelessness are caused by shortages of affordable housing, not by mental illness, drug addiction, or poverty.