{"id":32588,"date":"2011-01-19T13:31:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T18:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=32588"},"modified":"2011-09-26T14:17:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T19:17:02","slug":"changes-in-the-u-s-homeless-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/01\/19\/changes-in-the-u-s-homeless-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes in the U.S. Homeless Population"},"content":{"rendered":"

scatx sent in a link to the National\u00a0 Alliance to End Homelessness website<\/a>, which includes a number of maps illustrating the increase in the homeless population over the past few years. The data come from community counts conducted each January of individuals in shelters as well as counts by outreach workers and volunteers of those sleeping in public places, in cars, abandoned buildings, and so on. Of course, counting the homeless will always be a challenging task, but these community counts provide at least some baseline data for those areas that take part.<\/p>\n

This map shows the percent change in the homeless population by state<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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If you go to the website, you can hover over an individual state to see the relevant data. The page also has a map of the total number of homeless individuals by state.<\/p>\n

A more detailed interactive map lets you get information for individual communities<\/a>. When you click on one of the circles on the map, a bar graph pops up underneath showing any data available for that city from 2005-2008. Here I selected Philadelphia:<\/p>\n

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A breakdown of the data<\/a> shows that though most of those who are currently homeless are sheltered in some way, a significant number are living on the street, in a car, or in some other situation that wasn’t designed for human habitation:<\/p>\n

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The full report shows a striking increase in the number of people “doubled-up” — that is, staying with other families because of economic hardship (based on U.S. Census Bureau data):<\/p>\n

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While moving in with others is a common strategy, it is also often temporary; significant proportions of individuals in shelters end up there when they can no longer stay with friends or family.<\/p>\n

The website has tons of data on homelessness — risk factors, demographics, changes, and so on — so it’s worth a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

scatx sent in a link to the National\u00a0 Alliance to End Homelessness website, which includes a number of maps illustrating the increase in the homeless population over the past few years. The data come from community counts conducted each January of individuals in shelters as well as counts by outreach workers and volunteers of those […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,36,8080],"class_list":["post-32588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-economics","tag-housingresidential-segregation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39877,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32588\/revisions\/39877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}