Recently the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development released a report on how Texas has had one of the major homeless decreasing rates in the country since the year 2007. Texas was ranked in the top five over the last couple years for having the highest percentage of homeless people among those in New York, California, And Massachusetts.
Theirs different categories we put people in when talking about homelessness there's sheltered homeless people who are people who stay in emergency shelters or group homes, there's unsheltered homeless people who stay in cars. buses, parks, abandoned buildings etc. and then there's chronically homeless which are people who have a disability or has someone in the family with a disability who has either been continuously homeless for at least a year or experienced at least four episodes of homelessness in the past three years.
Nearly 30,000 Americans among those of 610,000 were in fact "homeless" this year in Texas that’s a 13% decrease from the year 2012 and a huge 27% from the year 2007. Nationally homeless people have declined over the years, sadly about a quarter of homeless people were children and about 12% of the homeless are adults and veterans. since the year 2007 Austin itself has went from having almost 6000 homeless people to 2090 homeless people this year and that’s good in my eyes that means the government is actually trying to make a difference for once.
To me its good to see this declining because that means people are in fact getting back on their feet and finding jibs that qualify for and are able to support themselves and/or family and actually have a place to stay and call home. The government should actually have a thing to where they in fact try to help homeless people directly especially when a majority amount seems to be children, to help get care and be able to support and take care of themselves because after all it's not like people just wake up one day and decide they want to be homeless.
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