Exploring Homelessness Among People Living in Encampments and Associated Cost: City Approaches to Encampments and What They Cost As of 2019, homeless encampments were appearing in numbers not seen in almost a century. The growth of encampments mirrored the increase in unsheltered homelessness overall and seemed to reflect a complex set of societal factors, including…
Oregon Point in Time Count (PIT) “The Point-in-Time (PIT) count is a count of sheltered and unsheltered people experiencing homelessness that HUD requires each Continuum of Care (CoC) nationwide to conduct in the last 10 days of January each year.” For more details click here. Oregon has one of the highest rates of homelessness of…
Homelessness Rises Faster Where Rent Exceeds a Third of Income Communities where people spend more than 32 percent of their income on rent can expect a more rapid increase in homelessness. Income growth has not kept pace with rents, leading to an affordability crunch with cascading effects that, for people on the bottom economic rung,…
Unlocking Homelessness, Part 1: Who Experiences Homelessness and Why A Study by the National League of Cities Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, homelessness was frequently cited as a top concern for cities of all sizes. Now in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the pandemic-induced economic crisis, along with a racial reckoning, homelessness has…