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.

  • stembolts@programming.dev
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    5 months ago

    Both parties are neolibs.

    It’s just a duopoly.

    All of your critiques apply to both parties.

    I’m left so I hate right.

    I’m right so I hate left.

    So boring.

    Introduce ranked choice voting.

    We could hate omnidirectionally.