This will be a common sight on every block during a Smackhead Presidency.
Posted on 09/21/2024 11:45:48 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The number of homeless people in the U.S. continues to grow, putting the country on pace to hit yet another record high this year.
Counts from encampments, streets, and shelters are largely higher than they were in 2023, according to preliminary data collected and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The numbers come from more than 250 homeless-service organizations covering cities, metro areas and vast rural areas. They are meant to reflect homelessness as it existed on a single night early this year. The Journal’s count includes about 550,000 homeless people so far, up about 10% from what these places reported last year.
The trend thus far means the U.S. is likely to top the roughly 653,000 homeless people estimated in 2023—the highest number since the government started reporting comparable data in 2007.
The final count will depend on outstanding data from places that haven’t yet divulged their 2024 numbers, especially New York City, which reported the highest count last year.
Migrants bused by Texas to Chicago and Denver contributed to the latest increases when they landed in shelters there. Migrants have arrived in significant numbers in New York, which has long had a legal right to shelter, swelling numbers in last year’s count.
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Bidenomics is working ask Biden’s VP.
There, fixed it.
R U batter off now?
Leftist studies say homelessness is caused by the high cost of homes and rent. Yet they just let in millions of illegals. Now we really do have a housing shortage.
Just before Obama got elected the Dem sycophant media pushed every night on the news that there are helpless, pathetic homeless families by the millions, destitute and without healthcare from the US government.
After he got in, they mentioned it .0001% of the time, and only as part of the “we need Obamacare” promotions.
This will be a common sight on every block during a Smackhead Presidency.
There is freedom in not having to maintain a home.
It’s democracy democrat-style.
Live ‘free’ and die hard.
They are VAGRANTS and ADDICTS on our streets ... both lifestyles BY CHOICE.
Trump needs to highlight this every chance he gets.
Wait a minute. We dispersed ten million people, few of whom speak English, throughout the country and homelessness went UP? Who could have foreseen that?
They just steal their tents, or claim one when someone moves on. Don’t waste your $$$$
Those ten million get enough money to get an apartment at grossly inflated rents. It’s the poor people who were evicted to make room for the horde of illegals that contributed to the vagrancy problem.
You have to expect this sort of thing when a $110,000 house goes for $375K.
You’re right, plus they won’t have the money to buy a tent anyway.
Maybe Trump should send them all to Delaware
I’ve spent some time around them. Cash isn’t to be spent on necessities like shelter. Recently, I was out in my pontoon boat, and a homeless guy I didn’t recognize asked if he could rent one of my rods, and waved a $20 at me. Yeah...right. He sat around for a bit, watching me. I’d located a lure stuck up in a tree, so I brought a long pole to try to retrieve it. Too short, but while playing around, I saw another lure, closer. While getting that one, I saw a third. The guy shook his head and left. Free lures, hanging in the trees....🤣
And this year, Biden will import what — five million more?
We will find housing for most of them. But every welfare rental for an illegal is one less unit available for low income Americans.
On top of that, we have turned policy on substance abuse and mental illness into a homelessness support system.
Bad policy compounded by bad policy = a homelessness crisis. Liberalism in action.
Biden will come out with a statement.
“Sure homelessness is a big problem - but we’re doing things. In fact, under my administration we keep breaking records!”
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