I suspect they are trying to say that the Trump-era did this increase, but if you go and look around (particularly in areas like Baltimore, Atlanta, and eastern cities)...you can find one real driver over the past five years....heroin/opioid use. Once you get a cop-raid...landlords have zero interest in having you in their property. You get dumped. Some relatives might be stupid enough to take you in.
You can find the same problem driving homelessness in rural areas now. That wasn’t true a decade ago.
I am not totally buying the opioid argument.
Not that it is not a serious problem.
Mainly because much of the problem was due to everyday people, not drug abusers, getting hooked.
But drugs like crack and meth have been around since the 8o’s.
As well as very potent marijuana.