Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent, report finds

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Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent, report finds
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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.

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They should GET A JOB! And don't you COMMIES tell me that Wages won't cover a one room rental because that's a LIE! I BOUGHT my house 30 years ago working as a JANITOR! Kids today are just LAZY! GIVE me my Social Security you COMMIES!

College only cost me $25 and a jug of corn liquor and when I got out, they immediately made me president of a metal fabrication company! What are these lazy millennials complaining about?

HE'LL YAEH BORTHER!!!!?!!!!

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