{"id":6928,"date":"2020-06-22T14:57:55","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T14:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.homelessvoice.org\/?p=6928"},"modified":"2020-06-22T17:37:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T17:37:42","slug":"national-homelessness-as-of-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beta.homelessvoice.org\/?p=6928","title":{"rendered":"National Homelessness as of 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>On a single night in January of 2019, there were 567, 715 homeless people in the United States according to the most recent report by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development<\/h2>\n<h6>Story and info-graphic by Andrew Fraieli<\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On a single night in January of 2019, there were 567,715 homeless people in the United States according to the most recent<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/files.hudexchange.info\/resources\/documents\/2019-AHAR-Part-1.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> report<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Released annually, the report is a breakdown of who is homeless and to what degree. The information is gained by what the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/endhomelessness.org\/resource\/what-is-a-point-in-time-count\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">National Alliance to End Homelessness<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> calls a \u201cpoint-in-time-count,\u201d which they define as, \u201can unduplicated count on a single night of the people in a community who are experiencing homelessness that includes both sheltered and unsheltered populations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u201cpoint-in-time count\u201d is possible thanks to a federal fund called the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grant program which requires communities that receive it \u2014 such as many Continuums of Care nationwide \u2014 to participate in the survey. This does mean that the report\u2019s numbers are not exact and they are stated as estimates. Private shelters that are not federally funded, such as the COSAC Foundation, would not be included as well as unsheltered homeless who could not be found by volunteers and shelter workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To the right are some of the statistics found by the survey, but the report also includes \u201ckey findings\u201d that help give context to the numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, some places saw a rise in homelessness over the past year such as California \u2014 which saw a 16 percent increase or 21,306 people, with unsheltered homelessness increasing by 21 percent or about 18,000 people. The overall homelessness in the U.S., though, has decreased by 20 percent \u2014 or by about 24,000 people \u2014 between 2007 and 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Other key findings in the report were that \u201cthe number of veterans experiencing homelessness declined by two percent between 2018 and 2019 and has dropped by almost 50 percent since 2009,\u201d but also that African Americans represented \u201c40 percent of all people experiencing homelessness, despite being 13 percent of the U.S. population.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A breakdown of the 2018 report can be found <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/beta.homelessvoice.org\/how-homelessness-is-measured-and-2018s-count\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and all past reports can be found <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hudexchange.info\/resources\/?ct=&amp;tt=&amp;topic=&amp;loc=&amp;predefdr=&amp;dr=&amp;relmat=&amp;orderby=searchDate&amp;csrf_token=673045CD-57D6-49D8-BA53DCDC1FC3FC94&amp;q=ahar#resources\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6935 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/beta.homelessvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2019-homelessness-infographic-01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"3300\" height=\"7740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/beta.homelessvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2019-homelessness-infographic-01.png 3300w, https:\/\/beta.homelessvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2019-homelessness-infographic-01-128x300.png 128w, https:\/\/beta.homelessvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2019-homelessness-infographic-01-437x1024.png 437w, https:\/\/beta.homelessvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2019-homelessness-infographic-01-768x1801.png 768w, https:\/\/beta.homelessvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2019-homelessness-infographic-01-655x1536.png 655w, https:\/\/beta.homelessvoice.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2019-homelessness-infographic-01-873x2048.png 873w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3300px) 100vw, 3300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a single night in January of 2019, there were 567, 715 homeless people in the United States according to the most recent report by the U.S. Department<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,551,549],"tags":[561,567,56,121,564,157,565,562,566,563],"class_list":["post-6928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homeless-voice-newspaper","category-national","category-news","tag-561","tag-change","tag-city","tag-florida","tag-gender","tag-homelessness","tag-race","tag-sheltered","tag-state","tag-unsheltered"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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