People ask me all the time in this tough environment what gives me hope. I always respond that it’s the people I work with and get to meet when I travel. All across the country, I’ve met homeless service providers […]
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In Memoriam: A Reflection on Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day
But Evie’s death in 2020 hit me particularly hard. I cried, more than I thought I would. I hadn’t seen her for years, so this sudden flood of emotion surprised me. I’d heard that she was back in an encampment; […]
Homelessness Systems Are More Efficient – But What’s Driving Homelessness Increases?
The Point-in-Time numbers are the product of annual community-wide efforts each January to determine how many people are living in shelters and other temporary housing, or are unsheltered (living in cars, abandoned buildings, on the streets, or in other places […]
Single Adults
Updated December 2023. How Many Single Adults Experience Homelessness? On a single night in January 2023: 463,590 single adults were homeless. 51 percent or 237,649 were unsheltered. 2020 marked the first time there were more individuals living unsheltered than in […]
Older Adults
Updated December 2023. How Many Older Adults Experience Homelessness? Age demographics were included in the annual Point-in-Time Count for the first time in January 2023. On a single night in 2023: 138,098 adults over the age of 55 were homeless. […]