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December 30, 2024 | 06:56 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Homelessness in the U.S. has reached a record level since the federal government began tracking the figures in 2007. According to data released this week, homelessness rose 18 percent in the last year, with 771,000 experiencing homelessness, marking the sharpest annual rise in decades.
The figure published by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday translates to approximately 23 out of every 10,000 people in the U.S. have experienced homelessness.
The increase follows a 12 percent rise in 2023, which the department attributed to skyrocketing rents and to the conclusion of pandemic assistance.
"Our worsening national affordable housing crisis, rising inflation, stagnating wages among middle- and lower-income households, and the persisting effects of systemic racism have stretched homelessness services systems to their limits," the Department of Housing and Urban Development said.
Between 2023 and 2024, children under the age of 18 were the age group that experienced the largest increase in homelessness, marking a 33 percent rise with 150,000 children experiencing the crisis, according to the data, as quoted from Reuters.
Black people, who made up 12 percent of the total U.S. population and 21 percent of the U.S. population living in poverty, represented 32 percent of all people experiencing homelessness, the data showed.
The new homelessness figures come amid the Biden administration’s pledge to increase funding for affordable housing and expand services aimed at preventing homelessness.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that cities may ban unhoused residents from sleeping outside; more than 100 jurisdictions around the country have since taken steps in that direction, Associated Press writes.
On the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump repeatedly pointed to illegal immigration as the cause of high housing costs, vowing that his plan to carry out mass deportation would lower home prices, as quoted by the New York Post.
RT.COM | REUTERS
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