archive.today • More Americans Are Ending Up Homeless—at a Record Rate - WSJ
The data so far this year are up roughly 11% from 2022, a sharp jump that would represent by far the biggest recorded increase since the government started tracking comparable numbers in 2007. The next highest increase was a 2.7% jump in 2019, excluding an artificially high increase last year caused by pandemic counting interruptions.
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“The Covid-relief funds provided a buffer,” said Donald Whitehead Jr., executive director at the National Coalition for the Homeless, an advocacy group. “We’re seeing what happens when those resources aren’t available.”
I posted this in the megathread, but I’m interviewing for a state government job right now and I don’t think I’d even be able to live on the amount they’re offering. just the rent would be 60-70% of my paycheck. the cost of living right now is fucking absurd, how long can this go on? and the only solution any of these moron politicians have is that we need to criminalize homelessness even more.
: “No one owes you anything, including a functioning society. Just go live in the woods, bro.”
The biggest driver remains high housing costs, which are now taking a heavier toll following the wind down of pandemic-era relief spending and policies such as eviction moratoriums, according to advocates for the homeless.
As usual, it’s the landlord problem at the heart of homelessness.
Say the line, /u/wombat!
Damn who would have thought that Adam Smith was correct?
Americans are getting priced out of trailer parks but liberals continue to say that this is a functioning society.
“I don’t see what the poors are complaining about, property is more valuable than ever! You have a house, don’t you have-nots?”
It functions for affluent liberals that clink wine glasses together and congratulate each other for their “sorry, hate to break it to you, but bad things are good actually” editorials that shit on the poors.
More like, no matter what liberals do, there will be a contingent of extremists who will do anything to stop their progress.
How exactly are leftists impeding anti-poverty progress?
Easy, they refuse to
for enough democrats to turn our country into a true liberal utopia. Without the lazy tankies dragging us down, surely we could get the 120 senators they’d need to overcome the filibuster and the democrats that just magically turn out to be against anything good passing
Liberals are extremists who violently want to maintain the status quo designed to let fascists stop progress.
Yeah, liberals. When your politicians need to get results in Bolivia you stage a coup and depose a democratic government. When you have 2 senators playing spoiler in your own country you cross your arms and pout. The Democrats are not just incapable of wielding power, they are unwilling.
Love to progress towards ecological collapse and war with Russia and China
Edit: and low key eugenics through pandemic diseases, good stuff, privatized everything also, love it
Edit 2: the sky is red, there’s smoke in the air, I opened my wallet and it’s full of blood. Love 2 be stuck in the belly of such a horrible machine, as the machine is bleeding to death
no one ends up homeless, no one ends up hungry.
That there are people without a place to sleep or proper food to eat is a choice made by those with power
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If it wasn’t for milking the rent relief from covid I don’t know where I’d be right now.
there was a dip in the numbers when the government extended unemployment
We could literally keep those people housed with the laws that already exist and we’re simply choosing not to!No more handouts, Jack!
wow I wonder what happened in 2021. maybe the evictions moratoriam was a good idea??
When it happened, the neoliberals were celebrating the end of the moratorium, and reveling at the prospect of people being evicted and ending up on the streets. I guess those demon fucks got what they wanted.
They always get what they wanted.
Not just that, but unemployment protections were extended, everyone got those cash injections, and idk how widespread this was but in my city they paid hotels to put up a ton of homeless people to get them off the streets.
you dont understand the senate paranormalist said we cant do anything good
I think anyone who deprives houses from people, whether it’s a politician with some policy or an investor buying up all the affordable ones to sell them at a higher price no one can reach to, is just a few semantics away from a murderer, absolutely despicable and disgusting
May God damn America and have Satan’s roaches feast on it’s rotten, fetid corpse
Try every elected representative for serial social murder.
Nothing to see here, everything is working as intended
“But muh property values!”
