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
    1·
    11 months ago

    Introduce ranked choice voting.

    This!

    We could hate omnidirectionally.

    Not so much, this. Hate is bad, hate leads to destruction (Dark Side, etc).

    We should ALL be asking our politicians about ranked choice voting. It’s not even mentioned currently by anyone though.