The 2020 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) To Congress

The report was released on February 23, 2021, by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. It presents the results of the 2020 annual point-in-time homelessness count. Homelessness in the United States rose 2.2% between 2019 and 2020, according to the one-night point-in-time (PIT) count that took place in both years, rising from 576,715 people in 2019, to 580,466 people in 2020. About 0.18% of the United States population was homeless on the night the PIT took place. This is the fourth year in a row that homeless has increased . . .