U.S. Homeless Count Surges 12% to Highest-Recorded Level (msn.com) The U.S. count of homeless people surged to the highest level on record, reaching more than 653,000 people early this year as Covid-19 pandemic-aid spending faded, new federal data show. The data released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development show a 12% gain since last year, marking both the biggest increase and highest tally since the U.S. first published comparable data for 2007. More than one-quarter of homeless adults counted this year were over age 54, reflecting what researchers say is a mounting “silver tsunami” as the youngest baby boomers reach retirement age Meantime, people who identified as Hispanic or Latino made up 55% of the increase in homelessness between 2022 and 2023. Those trends largely reflect an influx of migrants in cities such as New York City and Chicago, said Dennis Culhane, a University of Pennsylvania professor who helped compile HUD’s homelessness reports in past years. Another milestone achieved by Biden and his followers
I mean, if you want to blame Biden do you also give him credit for the increased value of your home? I'm sure you do
Who knew the OP is a firm believer in government housing solutions? I support it too. Biden-Harris Administration Announces Actions to Lower Housing Costs and Boost Supply | The White House
I think the most interesting part of this is the "silver tsunami" of boomers that are becoming homeless. I read an article about this a few months back and how a lot of boomers are falling prey to politics they voted for. Essentially their generation is responsible for making home/rent prices skyrocket while wages struggled to keep up.
Stated differently: "Joe Biden now has been the worst POTUS for housing equality in our history." The rich get richer under Joe and the poor keep getting poorer. Shame, shame, shame.
No argument from me there. The alternative is supporting heavy handed govt intervention into the housing and rental markets. I doubt Republicans actually want that, since they literally vote against it all the time.
So Old Joe is responsible for decades of federal tax policy that resulted in the rich becoming richer. Who would have thought? Certainly not according to actual data. And I guess he's also responsible for local zoning ordinances which have had effect of discouraging the construction of affordable housing The invisible laws that led to America's housing crisis | CNN Business
I'm sure that he would be complaining if Biden proposed legislation to address the shortage of housing for low and moderate income Americans.
Right wingers want to complain about economic conditions that their preferred politicians helped to create and for which the only relevant solution is their definition of "socialism."
100% Joe Biden - elected in the 1970's to the US Senate his policies soon forced the significant separation of income distribution so that by 1980 the separation became easily seen and has continued to widen because of Biden (that rhymes, if you didn't catch it). Joe is the most covert, astute, and brilliant strategist working and pretending to be "doofus Joe" yet controlling everything from his modest home in Delaware. "Problems widen when you get Biden!"
You think that Biden had the much influence? The Republicans were in the majority during 20 of the 36 years he was in the Senate and a Republican was in the White House during 22 of those years. It was the Reagan tax cuts and the Tax Reform Act of 1986 that were instrumental in the redistribution of income and both were enacted under a Republican president and Republican Senate majority combined with enough conservative Democrats in the House to give the Republicans significant control of legislative agenda from 2001 through 2006 and in the period of 2001 through 2006 the Republicans controlled the presidency and both Houses of Congress. Whether your willing to admit it or not it was the policy of low taxes for the wealthy that was largely responsible for the increased disparity of income. Previously posted in post #9 and by the way the disparity increased even further under Trump (not included in the graph).
no. I don’t. It was a facetious post Thank you for your earnest and honest reply. Your troubles widen when you vote for Biden.
Good thing the Biden Administration let 8 million more illegals into our country. That should help eliminate homelessness.
A lot of “illegal” immigrants work in homebuilding and construction trades, so actually yeah it should help with homelessness.
