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Homeless Population by State 2024. In the United States, there are over half a million people experiencing homelessness. These individuals live in a temporary shelter or transitional housing or sleep in a place not meant for habitation (like an abandoned building).
A) The Homeless Population is Growing as the System is Overwhelmed by a Constant Stream of New People. On a single night in January 2023, more than half a million people (653,104 people) were experiencing homelessness across the United States.
On a single night in 2022, an estimated 582,500 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States. Homelessness has increased 0.3% nationwide between 2020 and 2022, with a 6.9% increase in sheltered homelessness between 2021 and 2022.
The homeless population increased in 41 states between 2022 and 2023, with New Hampshire recording the most dramatic escalation. The population of people experiencing homelessness there increased 52 percent year over year.
Census Working Papers / Estimates of the Population Experiencing Homelessness and Living in Shelters. February 2024. Written by: Brian Glassman. Working Paper Number: SEHSD-WP2024-03. Abstract. The Census Bureau measures the size and composition of the poverty population using household surveys.
Vermont has seen the starkest increase in homelessness since 2020, with its homeless population nearly tripling, while Maine saw its homeless population more than double.
State of Homelessness. Homelessness in the United States is an urgent public health issue and humanitarian crisis. It impacts cities, suburbs, and rural towns in every state. Housing is a social determinant of health, meaning lack of it has a negative impact on overall health and life expectancy.
SF has between 7–10,000 homeless people. In June 2024, The Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling which reversed a California appeals court decision preventing cities from criminal homeless camps and sleeping in public areas. [8]
Nearly 327,000 people in the United States experiencing homelessness lived in shelters, a small proportion (0.1%) of the U.S. population from 2018 to 2022 but higher than from 2013 to 2017, according to American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates released in a working paper today.
According to the January 2022 PIT Count, 582,462 people were experiencing homelessness across America. This amounts to roughly 18 out of every 10,000 people 1 . The vast majority (72 percent) were individual adults, but a notable share (28 percent) were people living in families with children.