Comment on Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent, report finds
workerONE@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The article is new but it’s citing data that’s a year old.
"roughly 653,000 people reported experiencing homelessness in January of 2023, up roughly 12% from the same time a year prior and 48% from 2015. "
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Probably the newest data available. There’s no way that the trend has reversed rather than sped up since then.
P1r4nha@feddit.de 8 months ago
At least inflation went down, but with ever increasing rental cost the picture probably doesn’t look much better.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Inflation didn’t even go down, it’s just increasing at a slower rate. Things are still getting more expensive compared to how much money people have available.
mars296@kbin.social 8 months ago
What you are describing is inflation going down. Things going back to pre-pandemic prices would be deflation. With the government targeting 2% inflation in an ideal situation, deflation is not going to happen.
P1r4nha@feddit.de 8 months ago
Right… usually people talk about the inflation rate, not the overall devaluation of the currency. I wasn’t trying to suggestion there’s a deflation with the dollar.
Shalakushka@kbin.social 8 months ago
Every normal person who reads this understands you mean there is a lower rate of inflation than previously, the people replying to you are fucking dense.