"It's just one point in time. It's a picture, a photograph, as opposed to a video" Ruege said.

The report attributed the historically high number to several factors, including a multi-year surge in home prices and a reduction in covid-era assistance.

The rise was driven by unaffordable housing, inflation, systemic racism, natural disasters and rising immigration.

Veterans were the lone group among whom homelessness declined last year, and the number of homeless veterans is down more than half since 2009. That trend has been driven by bipartisan support for services and housing that is at odds with the rancor of the broader homelessness debate.

The US homeless population increased by more than 18% in a year, driven by high housing costs, natural disasters and a spike in migration to large cities, government officials said. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (Hud) said Friday that more than 770,

HUD, in its press release, said the rise in homelessness was fed, in part, by a jump in the number of migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. But this snapshot was taken in January 20