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Homelessness in the U.S. Creeps Upwards in the Past Two Years, Disproportionately Affects Minorities
The National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) released its annual report, The State of Homelessness in America, using data from HUD’s annual Point-in-Time Count. While the report finds homelessness decreased by 15% from 2007 to 2018, recent years have brought an uptick in homelessness, with a 0.…
The House Financial Services Committee will vote on the “Ending Homelessness Act,” introduced by Committee Chair Maxine Waters (D-CA). The legislation is a comprehensive plan to ensure the lowest-income people have safe, decent, and affordable homes. The vote will take place on March 26 at 2:00 p.m…
The Economic Roundtable published a report, Early Intervention to Prevent Persistent Homelessness, describing new predictive analytic tools to accurately forecast which populations are most at risk for chronic homelessness. The tools improve the efficiency and effectiveness of homeless…
An article by Seungbeom Kang in Housing Policy Debate, “Why Low-Income Households Become Unstably Housed: Evidence From the Panel Study of Income Dynamics,” identified income and job insecurity, lack of car ownership, and the presence of children in a household as household-level factors correlated…