America's Homeless Veteran Problem Is Getting Worse
Story by Nick Mordowanec •
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Homelessness in the U.S. is up for the seventh year in a row, with a 12 percent (about 70,650 additional homeless people) year-over-year increase from 2022 to 2023, according to federal homelessness data issued by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and Veterans Affairs (VA).
On a single night in 2023, roughly 653,100 people were experiencing homelessness, including four in 10 Americans who were experiencing unsheltered homelessness described as living "in places not meant for human habitation."
The number of homeless veterans increased 7.4 percent in the same period, the largest in 12 years. The 35,574 homeless veterans in 2023, equating to 22 of every 10,000 vets, included a 14 percent rise in the number of unsheltered veterans (1,943 more veterans) and a 3 percent increase in veterans experiencing sheltered homelessness (502 more veterans).
Between 2022 and 2023 alone, that number grew by 2,445 vets and the most in a year since veteran homelessness started a years-long downward trajectory between 2010 and 2016.
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