I think people imagine a certain thing when they hear of homelessness and it's not necessarily the thing that these reports talk about. Homelessness includes people living in any kind of temporary housing as well as people on the streets. It includes all people, not just citizens. Your conception of homelessness should not be "an American that's living on the streets due to a failed system". It is much broader than that.
That why when commenters are sarcastically saying Trump will fix this will find themselves at a loss when the homeless numbers go down in a couple of years. The "fix" was to deport asylum seekers and to stop them from entering the country in the first place. I suppose it's worth noting that there may be legitimate disagreement on if that's a better or worse outcome than the current system, since an overburdened asylum system in not a great outcome for asylum seekers or the existing homeless people in the country.
The short-to-medium term solution for asylum seekers is to increase the capacity of the asylum system to process the claims so that these people get on with their lives in a more permanent fashion. The long term solution to homelessness is to build more homes. We need mostly regular homes as most homelessness are people that simply can't afford a place to live. We will need specialized housing for the much smaller number of people that are homeless in the stereotypical way.
From the reports, a couple of excerpts to illustrate:
Finally, one CoC, New York City, noted that it continued to experience a significant influx of
asylum seekers in 2024. The CoC noted that these households, who were in emergency shelters,
accounted for almost 88 percent of the increase in sheltered homelessness in New York City.
According to the CoC, new arrivals (which included migrant and asylum-seeking families,
including those bused or flown to Chicago from other states) accounted for more than 13,600 people in
emergency shelters in 2024.
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