New stats boast a dip in homelessness — but they’re not the full story, By Pam Fessler, November 19, 2015, National Public Radio: “More than 560,000 people lived on the streets or in homeless shelters in the U.S. earlier this year. That number marks a 2 percent drop from the year before, according to new figures released Thursday by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Still, some question how accurately those numbers depict the problem. There are many ways one can count who is and isn’t homeless…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty