This is a report by PBS.
Week of 6.26.09
...How is the recession affecting homelessness? (click here)
The recession will force 1.5 million more people into homelessness over the next two years, according to estimates by The National Alliance to End Homelessness. In a 2008 report, the U.S. Conference of Mayors cited a major increase in the number of homeless in 19 out of the 25 cities surveyed. On average, cities reported a 12 percent increase of homelessness since 2007.
Although homelessness is a difficult number to measure definitively, it appears that more people—especially families—are sleeping in shelters, living in their cars, and taking up residence in tent communities....
Yet, this is a chart from USA Today siting improvement in homelessness. (click here) This chart is interesting, but, everyone remembers the effects on homelessness with the 2008 global economic collapse; tent cities. The chart does not reflect an increase in 2008 and 2009, it shows a continued decrease. Odd.
And the description of the homeless in this July 2009 report is hardly accurate. There are many families living out of a car or worse. So, while these circumstances are dealt with on a city by city basis, the overall understanding of homeless and the way to decrease it and/or eliminate it is not consistent.
Published by the National Coalition for the Homeless, July 2009 (click here)
...On an average night in the 23 cities surveyed, 94 percent of people living on the streets were single adults, 4 percent were part of families and 2 percent were unaccompanied minors. Seventy percent of those in emergency shelters were single adults, 29 percent were part of families and 1 percent were unaccompanied minors. Of those in transitional housing, 43 percent were single adults, 56 percent were part of families, and 1 percent were unaccompanied minors. Those who occupied permanent supportive housing were 60 percent single adults, 39.5 percent were part of families, and .5 percent were unaccompanied minors (U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2008)....
This report is out of a conference of mayors in the USA. Is the reporting more political or more the case of denial?
Week of 6.26.09
...How is the recession affecting homelessness? (click here)
The recession will force 1.5 million more people into homelessness over the next two years, according to estimates by The National Alliance to End Homelessness. In a 2008 report, the U.S. Conference of Mayors cited a major increase in the number of homeless in 19 out of the 25 cities surveyed. On average, cities reported a 12 percent increase of homelessness since 2007.
Although homelessness is a difficult number to measure definitively, it appears that more people—especially families—are sleeping in shelters, living in their cars, and taking up residence in tent communities....
Yet, this is a chart from USA Today siting improvement in homelessness. (click here) This chart is interesting, but, everyone remembers the effects on homelessness with the 2008 global economic collapse; tent cities. The chart does not reflect an increase in 2008 and 2009, it shows a continued decrease. Odd.
And the description of the homeless in this July 2009 report is hardly accurate. There are many families living out of a car or worse. So, while these circumstances are dealt with on a city by city basis, the overall understanding of homeless and the way to decrease it and/or eliminate it is not consistent.
Published by the National Coalition for the Homeless, July 2009 (click here)
...On an average night in the 23 cities surveyed, 94 percent of people living on the streets were single adults, 4 percent were part of families and 2 percent were unaccompanied minors. Seventy percent of those in emergency shelters were single adults, 29 percent were part of families and 1 percent were unaccompanied minors. Of those in transitional housing, 43 percent were single adults, 56 percent were part of families, and 1 percent were unaccompanied minors. Those who occupied permanent supportive housing were 60 percent single adults, 39.5 percent were part of families, and .5 percent were unaccompanied minors (U.S. Conference of Mayors, 2008)....
This report is out of a conference of mayors in the USA. Is the reporting more political or more the case of denial?
