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.

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    9 months ago

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    Some responsibility rests on Biden’s shoulders, far more than on mine or yours. You’re seemingly absolving him, as if blaming him for anything is wrong.