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
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      10 months ago

      She asked me one question. I responded to that one question. You want me to do something I already did.

      Here’s her original question that you haven’t answered yet…

      All of this is besides the point! I said that Biden could support tenant unions to help fight homelessness and unaffordable rents. Do you disagree with this basic premise?

      And here’s how you answered…

      Sure. No I don’t agree with a premise when it is not feasible.

      That’s a dodge, that’s not answering a question, that’s not being intellectually honest. That’s just text on a page, a hand wave, a non-answer answer, and not a valid content response.

      Unless you are truly saying it’s literally NOT feasible for Biden, the President of the United States of America, to help support unions?

      If you are, I’d love to know why you think that way, truly?