Overseas online review: New York exceeds 18,000 children's homelessness, "American Dream" has nowhere to place

Data map: On September 8th, in the city of Los Angeles, California, many homeless tents can be seen on the streets. (picture

In recent years, the number of homeless people in New York City has increased to 80,000, reaching the highest level since the Great Depression of the 1930s. On September 11th, 55,338 people slept in the city's shelter, including more than 18,000 children. Essence The problem of homeless returns exposed the reality of the gap between the rich and the poor in the United States, and there is nowhere to place the "American Dream" for many people.

The surge of homelessness is not a matter of a city in New York. The Washington Post reported on July 3 that the refuge in the United States reported that the number of people seeking help because it was difficult to maintain a basic life surged. In addition to the refuge, more unparalleled number of homelessness can be watched on the streets or live in parks and other places.

Elasticians, inflation, and housing deficiency are the main reasons for the surge in the current number of homeless people in the United States. The epidemic has a serious impact on the US economy, especially the service industry, which has caused many people to unemployment. According to data from the US Department of Labor on August 6, although the unemployment rate of service industry represented by leisure and hotel industry fell to 9%in July, far lower than 25%of the same period last year, but the number of employment was far lower than the level before the epidemic. Essence Because the income of the service industry is generally not high, this means that a large number of employment population not only has no income in the past two years, but may have exhausted accumulation, and has to rely on government subsidies and rescue to make a living.

Homeless people have also become the biggest victims of the current high inflation in the United States. In the past few months, the prices of the United States have soared, and the price of basic necessities such as housing costs, energy and food has continued to rise, which has caused more and more people to face the danger of displacement. A report from the US Government accountability bureau in 2020 pointed out that, every time the number of rents increased by $ 100, the homeless rate of home in the United States increased by about 9%. Data show that the median rents in the United States jumped to a record 2002 US dollars in May, an increase of 15%over $ 1738 in the previous year. Data from the US Census Agency show that about 13.7 million Americans owe rent or mortgage loans in early June, an increase of 7%over April. Among them, 4.6 million people were "possible" or "likely" to lose their residence due to failure to pay rent or repay loans in the next two months, an increase of 32%over April.

The shortage of support for housing, especially low -income people, will worsen the current situation. Taking New York as an example, the report issued by the New York State Social Service on August 31 states that only 16%of the homeless households who are eligible to obtain government -funded supported housing have been resettled. Craig Hughes, a social worker of the New York City Judicial Center Security Network project, said that although the New York Municipal Government has repeatedly stated that supportive housing will be built, government officials are actually more willing to build temporary asylum instead of permanent policy housing. New York is not an isolated example. According to data from the National Low -In -Housing Alliance, about 7 million low -income renters in the United States cannot obtain supportive housing. For those with low income, the market rent is unable to afford market rents and cannot stay in supported housing. The end result is the displacement.

Behind the surge of homeless people is the reality of the gap between the rich and the poor in the United States. According to data disclosed by the US Tax Fair, from mid -March 2020 to December 2020, 651 US billionaire's property has increased from US $ 2.95 trillion to $ 4.01 trillion. The person in charge of the institution Frank Clemens lamented: "The United States has never had such a huge wealth concentrated in the hands of a few people." In contrast to this, a survey by the School of Public Health of Harvard University showed that it showed that During the epidemic period, among families with a total income of less than $ 100,000, up to 54%of families face severe family financial crisis. On September 16, the United States may usher in the first national railway strike in the past 30 years. The main reason is that in the past few years, railway companies have made a lot of money, but railway employees will face the fate of their salary. For President Biden, the president of the United States who is the "defender of the union" and the most popular in the United States, the strike of railway workers is undoubtedly a mockery, the supply chain crisis brought by railway strikes and their agriculture, industry, people's livelihood, etc. The negative impacts of many areas are unwilling to see the Democrats in the mid -term election.

For a long time, "with a house with a fence" is a symbol of the "American Dream". However, when more and more Americans are displaced for various reasons, the gap between the gap between the rich and the poor is increasingly widening, and the "American Dream" will eventually crush in front of reality. (Nie Shi)

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