The U.S. is struggling to solve its homelessness crisis. The number of Americans living on the streets and in shelters is growing.
The number of Americans living on the streets and in shelters is growing.
And in New Mexico, $10 million is going to communities to buy old motels and hotels and transform them into transitional housing.According to Bloomberg, homelessness first peaked after the Civil War when veterans without jobs struggled to find housing and freed slaves struggled to find affordable homes or jobs.
Bloomberg adds the AIDS crisis that hit the LGBTQ+ community, a drug epidemic and mass incarceration of people, specifically Black or Hispanic people, also fueled the problem.According to the New York Times, most land plots are designed for single-family houses. Many state laws and zoning rules limit the land that can be used to build multi-unit buildings, like apartment buildings that can house multiple families.
"49% of the people that have gone through here are now permanently in housing, recovery, or in areas where we mended some family situations, but they have not turned back to the system," said April Seat, the director of outreach at Hope Rescue Mission.
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