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Facts and Statistics About Being Homless

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• Homelessness tends to happen more in big cities than small towns, where housing costs are high.
• By definition, being homeless is not having anywhere to call home. Although, it also can mean living in a place that was never intended for housing, such as a bus depot or highway underpass
• There are about 565,000 homeless people in the USA, as of January 2015.Though, the number is always changing, because of temporal homelessness.
• 1 in 7 Americans live on incomes that put them at risk for hunger.
• 8.5% of homeless persons are veterans.