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(The Center Square) – The number of homeless people in the U.S. reached the highest level recorded in 2024, as more than 770,000 people lived without housing on a single night in January ...
A report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development shows homelessness rose 18% in 2024, with causes including asylum seekers, lack of affordable housing and natural disasters.
The report noted that unlawful crossings at the US border have dropped more than 60% since January's homelessness tally, and encounters at the border itself are at their lowest level since July 2020.
In the United States, the number of homeless people on a given night in January 2024 was more than 770,000 according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. [4] Homelessness has increased in recent years, in large part due to an increasingly severe housing shortage and rising home prices in the United States.
The AHAR report relies on data from two sources: single-night, point-in-time counts of both sheltered and unsheltered homeless populations reported on the Continuum of Care applications to HUD; and counts of the sheltered homeless population over a full year provided by a sample of communities based on data in their local Homeless Management ...
The number for January 2024 is 18.1% higher than in 2023, when officials counted about 650,000 people living in homeless shelters or in parks and on streets. In 2022, the population of people ...
In April 2024, California awarded $11.4 million to Oceanside and Carlsbad through the Interagency Council on Homelessness. The funding aims to provide services and housing to approximately 350 people camping along the Highway 78 corridor. In August 2024, Oceanside received $6.1 million of the grant, while Carlsbad received $5.3 million. [120]
In releasing the Annual Homelessness Assessment Report in the last few days of 2024, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development cited immigration, along with the shortage of affordable ...