• starik@lemmy.zipBanned
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    18 hours ago

    According to that article, it’s just one school district in San Diego right now. And Cincinnati is considering it. This particular program is not common.

    About 0.2% of the US population is homeless at a given time. That’s more than half a million people. Most are homeless for less than a year, and almost 20% of US citizens have been homeless at some point in their lives. There is a lot of churn. Only about 2/3 are provided shelter.