The pandemic didn't produce many more homeless people, but it made a lot of them worse off.
That's the major takeaway from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) latest annual report on the country's homeless population. The data released today shows that homelessness stayed effectively flat over the past two years, but the people who are homeless are more likely to be living on the streets (as opposed to in shelters or transitional housing.)
