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.

  • tsonfeir
    12·
    10 months ago

    Wild how voting doesn’t guarantee your preferred winner of the lot will actually win. We need ranked voting.

    • blazera@kbin.social
      17·
      10 months ago

      That applies to literally every candidate. Everyone gets one vote’s worth of a say. If a lot of people dont want Trump or Biden, they dont have to win. But that pesky self fulfilling prophecy.

      You want ranked choice, vote for the candidate that endorses it. I dont know how you ever expect it to happen otherwise.