The 2020 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress

UnHope20 · 2021-12-15T01:29:56+00:00

The gender characteristics of all people experiencing homelessness reflected the high percentage of men in the individual homeless population.

Six of every 10 people experiencing homelessness were men or boys (61% or 352,211 men and boys), 39 percent were women or girls (223,578 women and girls), and less than one percent were transgender (3,161 people) or gender-nonconforming (1,460 people).

Demographic Characteristics of Individual Homelessness •The typical person experiencing homelessness as an individual in 2020 was 25 years of age or older (91%), a man (70%), identified his race as white (54%), and his ethnicity as non-Hispanic/ non-Latino (80%).

In absolute numbers, homelessness increased more among individual men than among women homeless as individuals, 8,692 men vs. 4,380 women. The percentage increase among women was slightly higher than the percentage increase among men, 4 percent vs. 3 percent, but unsheltered homelessness increased at a higher rate for men, with 10,054 more individual men in unsheltered locations in 2020 than in 2019.

UnHope20 · 2021-12-15T01:37:20+00:00

I do have one petty criticism of this report. That is the fact that the gender disparity was not listed among the "Key Findings".

It might seem small, but it communicates to the public that this issue is being recognized as a problem in itself.

When almost every demographic variable is noted (including race and age) it seems a bit odd that this wasn't included.

Title	The 2020 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress
Author	UnHope20
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Date	December 15, 2021 1:19 AM UTC (4 years ago)
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