The Spike in Homelessness in US Cities Isn’t Slowing Down
The number of people in families experiencing homelessness jumped nearly 38% this year in 20 major US cities.
Mercedez Milling, a single mother of four, moved into an apartment earlier this year through Turning Point, a two-year transitional housing program for homeless families run by Salvation Army.
Photographer: Shuran Huang/Bloomberg
Family homelessness in the US is on the rise in an alarming sign of how the increasing cost of goods, the ever-tightening housing supply and the end of most pandemic-era benefits are putting pressure on Americans.
Some 72,700 people in families with children were experiencing homelessness in 20 of the largest cities in the nation as of January, a 37.6% jump from a year before, according to an analysis of data provided by jurisdictions. In New York, that figure shot up by two thirds, while Chicago, the District of Columbia and Fort Worth, Texas, also saw outsize increases.