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@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    I’m not going to engage with someone with their head so far up their keester they don’t know how to discuss things to make sense.

    That statement/opinion is not intellectually honest.

    You may disagree with the opinions she’s expressing, but she’s expressing them well, and they are worthy of debate/discussion.

    • GladiusB@lemmy.world
      11·
      5 months ago

      It is absolutely honest. She is in engaging in what ifs and could be. Not what it is. That is intellectually dishonest. And not helpful.