Unsheltered Homelessness Up 3% & Chronic Homelessness Up 16%

The number of people experiencing homelessness in the United States increased by 0.3% between 2020 and 2022 to an annual single night point-in-time (PIT) count in January 2022 of 582,462 people experiencing homelessness. The incidence of homelessness varied across subgroups. The incidence of chronic homelessness in 2022 was up by 16% over 2020.

The number of people in shelters declined by 1.6% in the 2022 PIT count, but the number of people in unsheltered settings increased by 3.4%. About 40% of those experiencing homelessness in 2022 were spending nights in an unsheltered situation, which . . .