Study: Asylum Seekers Primarily Responsible for Large Spike in Homelessness

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Study: Asylum Seekers Primarily Responsible for Large Spike in Homelessness
Rachel Greszler | May 05, 2025
 
 

Between 2022 and 2024, the U.S. saw a record 43% rise in “sheltered homelessness”—staying in some sort of emergency shelter, as opposed to living on the street. That is shocking enough on its own, but according to a new study, a contemporaneous spike in asylum seekers accounted for a stunning 60% of that increase.

“Asylum seekers”—as referenced in the study—are all recent immigrants seeking residence in the U.S., regardless of their legal status.

Unsheltered homelessness has been on the rise since 2015, but sheltered homelessness had declined by 12% from 2007 to 2022 before its sudden 43% spike between 2022 and 2024.
 

According to data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the total homeless population in the U.S. increased by about 189,000 from 2022 to 2024 (from about 582,000 to about 771,000). Most of that increase came from a 149,000 spike in the sheltered homeless population (from about 348,000 to about 497,000). Of that roughly 149,000 increase, almost 93,000 were asylum seekers.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/05/study-asylum-seekers-primarily-responsible-for-large-spike-in-homelessness/

[rangerrebew]

Do these "asylum seekers" come here not speaking the language, come from 3rd world agrarian cultures that possess few job skills in a highly developed nation like the US, or understand how expensive it is here, understand saving money, or settle in major cities expecting to do farm type work?  These could be a few of the problems.

[DefiantMassRINO]

NIMBY's and Greens are responsible for largely spike in homelessness for opposing new housing construction and infrastructure improvements to support new residential, commerical, industrial, and defense construction.

The influx of illegal border crossers made a bad problem worse.