Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. in 2023

Having done volunteer work with the homeless (and helping with these counts in years past), I think the broad term of &quot;homeless&quot; isn&#x27;t all that useful.<p>I encountered so many different types of folks. Some were people down on their luck that needed help. Some had mental problems that (I&#x27;m guessing) can never really be fixed. Some had addictions. Some simply enjoyed being homeless.<p>I think addressing the problem would need to address varying underlying causes. For instance, &quot;just give them jobs&quot; will work for some of these folks, but not for a lot of them.

There should be an &quot;Apollo 11&quot; project for this.<p>I used to travel around the world and cannot believe that US couldn&#x27;t solve or is blind about this problem. It shocks me to be in the &quot;country of technology dreams&quot; while I look at the state of many people there. Only think in tech-noir movies.

“2023 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress, Part 1” <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.huduser.gov&#x2F;portal&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2023-AHAR-Part-1.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.huduser.gov&#x2F;portal&#x2F;sites&#x2F;default&#x2F;files&#x2F;pdf&#x2F;2023-...</a><p>Overview of the AHAR reports, including data: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.huduser.gov&#x2F;portal&#x2F;datasets&#x2F;ahar.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.huduser.gov&#x2F;portal&#x2F;datasets&#x2F;ahar.html</a>

This stat should probably be per population size, but regardless it’s a clear indicator that the economy isn’t as awesome as they say

Very sad, and evidently very hard to solve <i>within existing societal constraints</i>.<p>A few days ago there was a recent story shared on HN describing a perfect example of why it&#x27;s become so difficult to solve this horrible problem:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38627492">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=38627492</a>

“This year&#x27;s &quot;counts reflect a considerable lessening of the impact the COVID-19 pandemic on shelter use,&quot; the department&#x27;s report said.<p>Pandemic-era social safety net programs expired throughout the year, such as income protections and eviction moratoria.”<p>Pretty terrible reporting tbh. The above seems to be the executive summary. Also worth noting it’s the highest count since 2007, which is interesting on its own. Why was 2007 so high?

One&#x27;s ability to feel superior to people less fortunate than you is a very ingrained psychological factor in a capitalist society. America isn&#x27;t going to change, unfortunately.

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“But the economy is doing great!!!”<p>Let me tell you, the economy isn’t doing great for people like me. I’m permanently disabled and lost my housing at the beginning of Covid, and I haven’t been able to acquire housing since. For the last three years I’ve been living in a 2001 minivan. Now I’m seeing costs everything go up and the COKA adjustment for Social Security isn’t quite doing it.<p>Mark my words, were going to have a different party running the country next year. The Democrats have failed people like me, the people that used to be their base, and instead favored the corporate class who allowed the financial capitalist to buy up All the homes so they can rent them at outrageous prices.

Americans think they are free when they are actually prisoners of a mind worm.

In the US we must stop referring to drug addicts as &quot;homeless&quot; when they have been turned away from public or temporary housing because they have elected to do drugs instead.<p>It&#x27;s obvious that this creates a misleading perception among the public about the causes of people living outside the social norm of paying for the right to stay in a private space.<p>The danger of that is that when unchecked, the public votes and government acts based on this misconception. That converts to public policy which aims to solve the wrong problem at the cost of the wrong people.