Biden Administration Calls for 25% Cut in Homelessness by 2025

The White House released its annual homelessness count on Dec. 19 along with the Biden administration’s first strategic plan to combat the crisis, with an aim to cut the number of people without housing by 25% over the next 2 years.

Conducted on a single night in January, the latest census found that the overall number of Americans living in homelessness showed no real change between 2020 and 2022, rising just a fraction of a percent to 582,462. The White House said the results show that the administration’s emergency actions around housing...