US homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many people

I am really sick and tired of "Affordable Housing" being neoliberal jargon for "subsidized housing." It's an extremely biased framing of the debate that makes it hard to give fair consideration to other means of achieving actual affordability, such as -- just for example -- fixing the motherfucking zoning code so that developers aren't forced to include expensive amenities like parking spaces and are allowed to build stuff that's cheap enough for people to afford at market rate.

That increase comes on top of a 12% increase in 2023, which HUD blamed on soaring rents and the end of pandemic assistance. The 2023 increase also was driven by people experiencing homelessness for the first time.

This is the "economy" that the Democrats ran on being a "good economy."

Two straight years of massive increases in homelessness, but the increases started, shocker, in 2020.

This is from the AP News article that AP themselves references for the 12% increase in 2023:

https://apnews.com/article/homelessness-increase-rent-hud-covid-60bd88687e1aef1b02d25425798bd3b1

The numbers ticked up to about 580,000 in the 2020 count and held relatively steady over the next two years as Congress responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with emergency rental assistance, stimulus payments, aid to states and local governments and a temporary eviction moratorium.

Jeff Olivet, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, a federal agency, said the extra assistance “held off the rise in homelessness that we are now seeing.” He said numerous factors are behind the problem.

In other words, homelessness was exploding in 2020 and then was hidden for two years because of government assistance that got some people through some hard times. Obviously it wasn't helping enough if homelessness was still growing during 2020-2022.

The sharp increase in the homeless population over the past two years contrasts with success the U.S. had been having for more than a decade.

Going back to the first 2007 survey, the U.S. made steady progress for about a decade in reducing the homeless population as the government focused particularly on increasing investments to get veterans into housing. The number of homeless people dropped from about 637,000 in 2010 to about 554,000 in 2017.

"The economy is outstanding and Biden is the most effective president in history!"

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But seriously, it's but hard to see why people think the economy is ass

people always argue against violence, but revolutions don't happen by asking nicely. companies taking your home and driving people to homelessness is "violent".