Taking a step back, HUD’s report underscores the urgent need to develop affordable housing and provide greater assistance to secure the safety and security of families and children.
Additional public health crises, natural disasters that displaced people from their homes, rising numbers of people immigrating to the U.S., and the end to homelessness prevention programs put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the end of the expanded child tax credit, have exacerbated this already stressed system.
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Wehaveseenadramaticincreaseinhousinginsecurityamongourprobonoclientsinrecentyears.Unfortunately,it’spartofanalarmingnationwidetrend.Accordingtoarecent report issuedbytheU.S.DepartmentofHousingandUrbanDevelopment(HUD),homelessnessreachedarecordhighin2024. Indeed,thereportfoundthatthenumberofpeopleexperiencinghomelessnessintheUnitedStates–morethan770,000–grewby18%fromthepreviousyear,whilethenumberofpeopleinfamilieswithchildrenexperiencinghomelessnessincreasedby39%.Inapost-pandemiceconomythatisgenerallyconsideredtobedoingwell,itseemscounterin
