"More of America’s homeless are clocking into jobs each day"

Homelessness, already at a record high last year, appears to be worsening among
workers.

By Abha Bhattarai
Published July 28, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. EDT | Updated July 29, 2024 at 1:59 p.m. EDT

They are plumbers and casino supervisors, pizzeria managers and factory workers.
They deliver groceries, sell eyeglasses and unload trucks at Amazon.

And they’re the new, unlikely face of homelessness: Working Americans with
decent-paying jobs who simply can’t afford a place to live.

Homelessness, already at a record high last year, appears to be worsening among
people with jobs, as housing becomes further out of reach for low-wage earners,
according to shelter interviews and upticks in evictions and homelessness
tallies around the country. The latest round of point-in-time counts — a tally
of people without homes on one given night — show a discernible uptick in
homelessness in many parts of the United States, including Southeast Texas (up
61 percent from a year ago), Rhode Island (up 35 percent) and northeast
Tennessee (up 20 percent).

While there is no federal data on unhoused workers, shelter administrators and
local groups report a spike in first-timers with jobs. In Tulsa, for example,
where homelessness rose 26 percent this year, lack of affordable housing ranked
as the top reason people said they were homeless, beating out mental health
struggles or job loss.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/07/28/homeless-lack-of-affordable-housing-economy/

Back on July 20:

Holman:
Hell, even 40% of the homeless have jobs -

BlueBitch:
<LOL> Nonsense....

Message-ID: <53ao9jpva5ji7sn9h5b7kfan6bae7pur3g@4ax.com>

BlueBitch, as always, was full of shit.

X, formerly known as "!Jones" wrote:
> people who make minimum wage
> and can't manage to move out of homeless shelter.

They can afford it of they;re working, and 40% are.

If you have a medical emergency, stop reading, log off, and dial 911!

>X, formerly known as "!Jones" wrote:
>> people who make minimum wage
>> and can't manage to move out of homeless shelter.
>
>They can afford it of they;re working, and 40% are.

I didn't take any position on that. The initial poster was hinting
that they were riding welfare. The original essay went to the idea
that one cannot live on minimum wage. Whether or not that's factual
isn't a point of mine.

On Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:26:19 -0500, "X, formerly known as \"!Jones\"" <x@y.com> wrote:

>If you have a medical emergency, stop reading, log off, and dial 911!
>
>>X, formerly known as "!Jones" wrote:
>>> people who make minimum wage
>>> and can't manage to move out of homeless shelter.
>>
>>They can afford it of they;re working, and 40% are.
>
>I didn't take any position on that. The initial poster was hinting
>that they were riding welfare. The original essay went to the idea
>that one cannot live on minimum wage. Whether or not that's factual
>isn't a point of mine.

32*$15 an hour comes to 480 gross each week. That's after tax income of roughly $1500 a
month. Raise two kids on $1500 a month in a real estate market wherein two bedrooms rent
for $1500 a month.

#nevertrump