Biden Administration Calls for 25% Cut in Homelessness by 2025
The Biden administration’s new strategic plan to address homelessness includes a focus on equity and a promise to help cities build more housing.
Pedestrians walk past a sidewalk shelter for a person experiencing homelessness on Market Street in downtown San Francisco in April 2022.
Photographer: David Paul Morris/BloombergThe White House released its annual homelessness count on Dec. 19 along with the Biden administration’s first strategic plan to combat the crisis, with an aim to cut the number of people without housing by 25% over the next 2 years.
Conducted on a single night in January, the latest census found that the overall number of Americans living in homelessness showed no real change between 2020 and 2022, rising just a fraction of a percent to 582,462. The White House said the results show that the administration’s emergency actions around housing are working: While precarity surged across the US during the pandemic, a new wave of mass homelessness did not follow.