Rents over the last two decades have risen much faster than employee pay, contributing to an escalating homelessness crisis in the U.S.
  • pan_troglodytes@programming.devEnglish
    22·
    10 months ago

    roughly 653,000 people reported experiencing homelessness in January of 2023,

    typo or does it take a year to compile statistics like that?

    • GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world
      21·
      10 months ago

      I mean, that’s a significant amount of data to compile from folks that probably won’t be filing right into your database for you. You have to get people walking around encampments with a clipboard in a whole lot of places.