After years of increasing to record-high levels, the homeless population in the U.S. dropped more than 6% in 2025. That amounts to roughly 49,000 fewer people without housing. It’s the second year in a row that homelessness has declined, with a smaller drop in 2024.
“President Trump’s actions to secure the border, get criminal illegals off our streets, and restore safety to our communities drove a historic decrease in homelessness,” Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner said in a press release announcing the results of an annual count in communities around the country. The agency had not yet posted a detailed report.
A second independent analysis based on the same count, but commissioned by the advocacy group National Alliance to End Homelessness, found a similar decline but credited different reasons for it.
“It’s good news that more people are getting housed, and that the programs that are funded by Congress are working,” said CEO Ann Oliva.
As a knee jerk reaction, I am gonna guess that the regime is just doing a much shittier job of tracking it, combined with a likely actual downswing in the numbers as a direct result of ICEatzgruppen indefinitely incarcerating and deporting unhoused people, regardless of nationality.
Exactly my thought. They stopped taking measurements but are still reporting on them?
That’s some propaganda bullshit if I’ve ever heard any
They only count homeless like they count unemployment, only the most recent 6 months, and only people who are actively looking for new opportunities count.
Is it that they were housed or that they are in detention centers?
And here I was merely wondering how they changed the counting rules.
by not counting it of course. if they count less than previous years, you see a “drop”
No the cities push them out and made illegal to be homeless, so homeless as been “solved” I call bullshit on this article. My bet gotten worse.
From homeless to prison labor camp.
“We dont have homeless. We have mentally ill and troublemakers.”
Or did a good wave of them just die? We need these answers.
Fentanyl overdose
or not even reporting who is actually homeless, how do they keep track homeless people anyways, other than shelters.
Maybe they died.
That too.
Prison. And deported.
Bullshit. It’s getting worse. Source: I live in Tacoma.
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I guess the Trump goons compromised NPR too
NPR has always been indistinguishable from legacy corporate media. They have to both-sides everything or the fanatics threaten to cut their funding.
Buuuuuullshit it did. I’m out here and it’s getting crowded.
seems like it increased within the last 6 years but actually 10+years, coinciding with a large increase in posts on th subs people lost thier jobs/ cant find thier careers or people started railing on thier family member still living at home for one reason or another.
