A record estimate of 771,480 people were homeless in the U.S. in 2024, an 18% increase from a year earlier, fueled by factors including an influx of migrant families, a lack of affordable housing and natural disasters,

There was a record 18% rise in homelessness in the U.S. in 2024, driven by factors like unaffordable housing, high inflation, systemic racism, natural disasters and rising immigration, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said on Friday.

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

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said federally required tallies taken across the country in January found that more than 770,000 people were counted as homeless — a number that misses some people and does not include those staying with friends or family because they do not have a place of their own.

Homelessness in the U.S. reached a record high in 2024, according to a new survey from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

A surge of migrants entering the country and the United States’s housing affordability problem has fueled the country’s highest number of homeless people on record in 2024. A report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development revealed more than 770,