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.

  • Cosmic Cleric
    1•10 months ago

    Now that she’s shown that she has answered your questions, could you answer hers?

    • Flying Squid
      0•10 months ago

      Sure. No I don’t agree with a premise when it is not feasible.

      • Cosmic Cleric
        1•10 months ago

        A bit hypocritical of you, and opinion cowardly, but you do you.

        • Flying Squid
          -1•10 months ago

          Insulting me will not make me accept a ludicrous premise. If you told me that Martians are eating my eyeballs, why would it be hypocritical or cowardly for me to say I didn’t accept that premise when you asked me?

          • Cosmic Cleric
            1•10 months ago

            Dodge.

            Just answer her questions.

              • Cosmic Cleric
                1•10 months ago

                What am I dodging? In specific?

                Scroll up.

                That question is another dodge, and everyone can see it as such.

                  • Cosmic Cleric
                    1•10 months ago

                    Don’t move the goal posts. Go back to her comment and your reply about answering questions. Just scroll up, you’ll find them there.