New statistics show that the overall number of homeless people in America dropped slightly last year ”” although the number of homeless families rose 7 percent.
The report from the Department of Housing and Urban Development comes a week before the Obama administration plans to announce the first national proposal to prevent and end homelessness.
About 1.56 million people spent at least one night in an emergency shelter in 2009, according to the HUD report. The number was 1.6 million the year before. And that was at a time of high unemployment and record high foreclosure rates.
Homeless numbers always dip in the first year of a democrat administration. That’s not the same thing as the number of homeless dipping.