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    Homelessness has increased in recent years, in large part due to an increasingly severe housing shortage and rising home prices in the United States....
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    Homelessness in the United States has differing rates of prevalence by state. The total number of homeless people in the United States fluctuates and constantly...
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    community, and has experienced homelessness more than once in their lifetime. One of the primary causes of homelessness among American women include domestic...
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    The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development estimated that more than 181,399 people were experiencing homelessness in California in...
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  • and Risk of Homelessness among U.S. Veterans: A Multisite Investigation" (PDF). National Center on Homelessness among Veterans. United States Department...
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  • Research shows that a disproportionate number of homeless youth in the United States identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, or LGBT. Researchers...
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  • students in public schools in the United States experienced homelessness. According to the National Center for Homeless Education, there were more than...
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    "Hunger and Homelessness Survey: A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities: A 27-City Survey December 2009" (PDF). United States Conference...
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    July 2015. National Coalition for the Homeless (2012). "Multiple Factors Contribute to Homelessness". Homelessness. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Greenhaven...
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    shelter programs. It was the first significant federal legislative response to homelessness, and was passed by the 100th United States Congress and signed...
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    The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) is an independent federal agency within the U.S. executive branch that leads the implementation...
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  • several decades, various cities and towns in the United States have adopted relocation programs offering homeless people one-way tickets to move elsewhere...
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    political issue throughout United States history. Eligibility to vote in the United States is governed by the United States Constitution and by federal...
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  • Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR). The National Coalition for the Homeless estimates that, at each election, around 10% of the homeless exercise...
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    Homelessness in the United Kingdom is measured and responded to in differing ways in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, but affects people...
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  • This is a list of notable tent cities in the United States. A tent city is an encampment or housing facility made using tents or other temporary structures...
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  • Maine has one of the highest per capita rates of homelessness of any state within the East Coast of the United States. This may be attributed to several...
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    According to the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, as of January 2017, there are an estimated 32,190 homeless individuals in Florida. Of...
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    than half a million people are homeless. The geographic patterns of homelessness in the United States are explained by the high cost and low availability...
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  • The Librarian's Guide to Homelessness is a 2018 book by Ryan Dowd that examines homelessness in libraries. Published by ALA Editions, it has been reviewed...
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  • and transitional homelessness, making direct comparisons of numbers complicated. Statistics on homelessness (and other social issues) in dependent territories...
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  • million people are homeless on any given night in the United States, and a third of them are unsheltered. The growing issue of homelessness has been met with...
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    increases in homeless people to the housing shortage, with the result that homelessness in California overall has increased by 15% from 2015 to 2017. In September...
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    In response to the impact of homelessness in their communities, municipal governments in the United States regularly conduct sweeps of tent encampments...
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  • of squatters. Homelessness in the United States Inclusionary zoning Defrauding an innkeeper Occupy Wall Street White, Richard (1991). The Middle Ground:...
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  • Perhaps the most accurate and current data on homelessness in the United States is reported annually by the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
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    states and territories by poverty rate List of lowest-income places in the United States Lowest-income counties in the United States Homelessness in the...
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    The United States of America is a federal republic consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States)...
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    chronically homeless individuals. Homelessness in Ohio has been declining, as Ohio ranks as one of the U.S. states with lower rates of homelessness and has...
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    Hooverville (category Homelessness in the United States)
    during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset...
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