Gladwyn d’Souza

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/23/byli-d23.html

the Dow Jones Industrial Average breaks record after record. But this winter, more homeless Americans than ever will spend the holidays on the streets, in homeless shelters, in parked cars and RVs, in abandoned buildings and under highway overpasses.
The number of homeless people in the United States has hit a record 653,000, a 12 percent increase over the prior year and an all-time record. This year, the number of homeless people in America was greater than the entire population of Vermont or Wyoming.
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As billionaire wealth surges, US faces record homelessness

The latest “point-in-time” survey from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development revealed a staggering 12 percent jump in homelessness in 2023, one of many indicators of severe social distress in capitalist America.

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Jacob Crosse for WSWS- But even these figures are likely an underestimation. A 2017 report from the National Law Center on #Homelessness & #Poverty noted that a previous study using “administrative data collected from homeless services” estimated that the annual number of homeless people in the US is “2.5 to 10.2 times greater than can be obtained using a point in time count.”
Notable findings from the latest HUD survey include:
• Homelessness among families with children increased by 15.5 percent.
• Nearly one in six homeless people, or more than 98,000, were between 55 and 64, while another 39,700 were over the age of 64.
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