More people than ever are being moved out of homelessness in the U.S., just over 900,000 a year on average since 2017. The problem is that about the same number or more have lost housing in the past few years.
The Biden administration’s latest plan to fight the homelessness crisis, released Monday morning, calls for more action to keep people from losing their housing in the first place.
“We’ve gotten very, very good at providing supportive housing for people,” says Jeff Olivet, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, which developed the plan. “We’ve not done a great job as a nation of turning off the faucet.”
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