The Game Is Rigged: Black Americans Make Up 40% of the US Homeless Population
The 2019 annual Homeless Assessment Report (HAR) to Congress reported 568,000 homeless Americans, a 2.7% jump from the previous year. Of that, 39.8% of the homeless population are Black. That number increases to 52% when assessing homeless people with children. Let me run that back. Of the 568,000 homeless Americans in this…