Despite a national spike in homelessness, some US regions are finding solutions

Last month, volunteers across the United States braved frigid temperatures to conduct the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s annual point-in-time (PIT) count, which tallies the number of people experiencing homelessness in a community.

• Hanna Love and Tracy Hadden Loh
• Brookings

As the numbers are added up, it’s important to ask:

What is the nation learning from this data?

And more importantly, how are local leaders using it to craft more effective and humane homelessness policies?

Late last year, we published an in-depth analysis of pandemic-era homelessness trends in major U.S. cities and found a…

• Despite a national…