Study: Asylum-Seekers Primarily Responsible for Large Spike in Homelessness

Between 2022 and 2024 , the U.S. saw a record 43% rise in “sheltered homelessness”—staying in some sort of emergency shelter, as opposed to living on the street.

A surge in asylum-seekers accounted for a stunning 60% of that increase.

Three-quarters of that rise in sheltered homelessness occurred in four “sanctuary” areas representing just 5% of the population.

This means that taxpayers in areas that attract and subsidize individuals who entered the U.S. illegally will not only bear the full burden of those “welcoming” policies, but they could also lose federal funding that supports their legal citizens—that is, unless they decide to change those policies and to comply with the federal law. Rachel Greszler is a senior research fellow in workforce and public finance in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for economic policy studies at The Heritage Foundation . Original article link.