SAN JOSE, Calif. — As the Bay Area struggles with the ever-worsening crisis of people sleeping in tents and vehicles, the Biden administration has set an ambitious new goal to reduce homelessness by 25% in the next two years.
The plan, called “All In,” intends to build off the efforts that ramped up during the COVID-19 pandemic to increase housing and shelter capacity and get people off the streets. It lays out priorities including adding housing, moving people out of encampments and preventing more people from falling into homelessness, while also addressing the fact that people of color are disproportionately likely to be homeless.
There are an estimated 582,462 unhoused people in the United States, according to new data released Monday. That’s up 0.3% from 2020.
