The Department of Housing and Urban Development is reporting a 2.7% increase in the nation’s homeless population based on its annual count taken in January 2019.
driven by a surge in California, according to an annual count that took place in January.
President Trump has been highly critical of the homeless problem in California, and HUD said the increase seen in its January snapshot was caused “entirely” by a 16.4% increase in the state’s homeless population. In the January 2018 count, almost 553,000 people were counted as homeless. That number rose to about 568,000 this year.
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