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.

  • @lucidinferno
    18•10 months ago

    Ah. The Russian trolls/bots have discovered lemmy. It was nice while it lasted.

    • KSP Atlas
      5•10 months ago

      You’ve never seen lemmygrad or hexbear? And lemmygrads been around for years