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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If you don't like the answer because it isn't "honest," too bad. That is the answer I gave to the question that was asked.

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

And I don't really care what you'd love to know after you've called me cowardly and intellectually dishonest and repeatedly insisted I answer the question that I answered over and over to you. After all, if I told you, you'd continue to berate me and just not believe me anyway.

So I think we're done here.

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