Health Affairs March 27, 2024
In 2022, across the United States, more than 233,000 people experienced unsheltered homelessness, sleeping in cars, parks, or abandoned buildings. Rates of homelessness continue to increase amid rising rent, inflation, ongoing economic fallout from the pandemic, and the growing affordable housing crisis. Without a stable home, individuals are at greater risk for health and safety issues and shortened lifespans.
Homelessness, and its drivers—poverty, lack of affordable housing, and unemployment—are the result of deep structural inequities in our economy and systems of governance; they disproportionally harm low-income people, people of color, and other marginalized populations. Still, many people view homelessness as the result of grave personal failure. Studies on public perception have found that people associate homelessness with “irresponsibility,” substance abuse,...
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