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

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.

  • @zeppoEnglish
    4•11 months ago

    That would be great but voting for them this round isn’t a practical choice. We have to somehow get voting reforms then support the candidates we actually prefer. That would start at a local/state level.

      • @zeppoEnglish
        2•11 months ago

        Before there is comprehensive voting reform it won’t work at all. It’s more likely to get whatever candidate you least support elected.

        • blazera
          -2•11 months ago

          everyone’s waiting for voting reform to just happen for them. For the folks being elected with the current system that favors them to adopt it out of the goodness of their hearts.

        • queermunist she/her
          -8•11 months ago

          Chicken and egg problem.

          You can not get voter reform with a Democrat or Republican. They will not support legislation that make their own Party less powerful.