Need For Affordable Housing

Homeless people have been considered to demonstrate high levels of personal disability (substance abuse, mental illness), extreme degrees of social separation, and deep poverty. Each of these conditions poses unique housing issues.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development estimates that 226,000 Americans were living homeless in December 2020, up by thirty percent since 2015. In 2020, rough sleepers accounted for approximately thirty-nine percent of the nation’s total homeless population, the highest number in a decade.

The two percent increase in America’s total homeless population between 2019 and 2020 is due to the increase of unsheltered homelessness. These trends offer the background against which the homelessness issue has unfolded. No doubt, homelessness is an affordable housing issue.