The HUD data is a bit bulky and hard to share easily [0], but there has been a rise in unsheltered homelessness since 2015 from 173,000 to 234,000. You are righ

The HUD data is a bit bulky and hard to share easily [0], but there has been a rise in unsheltered homelessness since 2015 from 173,000 to 234,000. You are right that overall homelessness is down over time (but not since 2015) and this is admittedly not indexed for population growth. The problem is particularly acute in California, which had 171K homeless in 2022 and bottomed out at 114K in 2014. But yes, long term trends are still down. [0] https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/6802/2022-ahar-part-1-pit-estimates-of-homelessness-in-the-us/ https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/6802/2022-ahar-part-1-... And with drugs, I am admittedly not sure of the long term historical trend, but over the past decade or so, things have gotten substantially worse: https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overd... https://nida.nih.gov/sites/default/files/images/2023-Drug-od-death-rates-1.jpeg https://nida.nih.gov/sites/default/files/images/2023-Drug-od...