The Department of Housing and Urban Development has found there is now a record number of homeless people in the United States.
Liberal policies are primarily to blame.
The homelessness census report found that homelessness in the U.S. increased by 18% to a record number of 771,480. That 18% increase from 2023 to 2024 is made worse when you know that homelessness increased by 19% from 2007 to 2024, making the jump from 2023 to 2024 responsible for nearly the entire increase over the last 17 years.
Of the six states that saw an increase of 25% or more in their homeless population, just two are run by Republicans. Alabama’s homeless population went up by nearly 1,300 people, though the state’s homelessness rate remains relatively low compared to the rest of the country, while West Virginia, which gained 363 homeless people, still has a better homelessness rate than many of its neighbors. The other four states are bastions of Democratic governance: Colorado, an increase of 4,276; Massachusetts, an increase of 10,219; Illinois, an increase of 13,885; and New York, an increase of a whopping 54,819.
Those four states happen to be the ones that have encouraged illegal immigrants to cross the border, leading Texas to send those illegal immigrants their way. New York City and Illinois have been overwhelmed by illegal immigrants, leading to homeless shelter restrictions and a lack of city resources to deal with that crisis or other city functions. Massachusetts had to deploy National Guard members to serve as glorified maids at hotels housing newly arrived illegal immigrants. Colorado is now home to the unofficial American headquarters of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
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The failed immigration policies of the Biden administration, as well as those four states actively encouraging illegal immigrants to swarm the border with promises of “sanctuary,” are behind the massive surges in the homeless population. California, the model state for Democratic failures in governance on homelessness and everything else, rounds out the top five states with the biggest total increase in homeless people, though Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) boasted that California’s rate of homelessness increased at less than the national average. Newsom also said CalMatters’s homeless estimation for California was unreliable and unverified in an effort to downplay it, only for HUD’s numbers to be even higher than what CalMatters had.
From the Biden administration’s failed immigration policies to sanctuary states and cities inviting people they can’t house to California’s general incompetence, Democratic policies are the chief driver of the record homelessness we are seeing today. If you don’t think this problem can continue to get worse, you aren’t familiar with the stubbornness of Democrats in power in the face of their own massive failures.