Miguel Afonso Caetano on Nostr: "According to a recent report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development ...
"According to a recent report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), homelessness rose 18 per cent in 2024 over the previous year, at 771,480. Nearly 150,000 children under 18 experienced homelessness, up 33 per cent from 2023. Among families with children it rose 39 per cent.
HUD, which takes a “snapshot” of homelessness on a single night every year, admits it’s an undercount. It only includes people living in shelters, cars, public parks, abandoned buildings or campgrounds — not the many thousands who are “couch surfing”.
Many families with school-aged children fall into the latter category, says Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, an expert on youth homelessness.
Even in the affluent suburbs of Chicago where I live — and where a lakeside mansion recently found a buyer at the asking price of $35mn — local schools have many kids without homes.
In my upscale local school district, 5.3 per cent of kids in pre-school through eighth grade were homeless in 2022-23. In 2023-24, Chicago public schools identified 26,800 homeless students, or 8.29 per cent."
https://www.ft.com/content/c95893f4-1d7c-473a-a5fe-17b49acd56f1
#USA #Housing #Homelessness #Inequality #Poverty
HUD, which takes a “snapshot” of homelessness on a single night every year, admits it’s an undercount. It only includes people living in shelters, cars, public parks, abandoned buildings or campgrounds — not the many thousands who are “couch surfing”.
Many families with school-aged children fall into the latter category, says Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, an expert on youth homelessness.
Even in the affluent suburbs of Chicago where I live — and where a lakeside mansion recently found a buyer at the asking price of $35mn — local schools have many kids without homes.
In my upscale local school district, 5.3 per cent of kids in pre-school through eighth grade were homeless in 2022-23. In 2023-24, Chicago public schools identified 26,800 homeless students, or 8.29 per cent."
https://www.ft.com/content/c95893f4-1d7c-473a-a5fe-17b49acd56f1
#USA #Housing #Homelessness #Inequality #Poverty