On a given night, the homeless services system provides shelter for 348,630 people. Throughout America, numerous dedicated workers use limited available resources to serve people experiencing homelessness. They have unique barriers and needs that must also be addressed. Meanwhile, women (both those living as individuals and in families with children) and people who identify as transgender, nonbinary (“not singularly female or male,” per HUD), and questioning are also notably represented within homelessness (see visualization below). Serious systemic failures are occurring in relation to some of America’s men, implicating holes in the social safety net, challenges within feeder systems, and barriers to rehousing. Within the overall homeless population (which includes both adults and children), men, who are 68 percent of the individuals population, far outnumber women and are far more likely to experience homelessness. Who is Experiencing Homelessness in 2022: By Gender Effectively addressing homelessness will likely require invested partners to account for America’s history, and that history’s influence on current culture, policy, and practice. The racial and ethnic groups with the highest incidences of homelessness have extensive histories of experiencing oppression, including displacements from land and property and exclusions from housing opportunities. Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islanders particularly stand out as having the highest rates, with 121 out of every 10,000 people experiencing homelessness. For Black people, that number is more than four times as large-48 out of every 10,000 people. Within the White group, 11 out of every 10,000 people experience homelessness. Most groups of color have higher rates of homelessness than their White counterparts-and, in some cases, far higher. Each section features interactive charts to display this data, with highlights discussed in the text of this report. Data in this report is pulled from HUD’s 2022 Point-in-Time (PIT) Count data, as well as Housing Inventory Count data. on a given night in 2022, and illustrate emerging trends. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to provide an overview of the scope of homelessness in the U.S. The State of Homelessness: 2023 Edition uses data from the U.S. Homelessness rose by a modest 0.3 percent from 2020 to 2022, a period marked by both pandemic-related economic disruptions and robust investments of federal resources into human services.Homeless services systems continued to expand the availability of both temporary and permanent beds in 2022, but these resources still fall short of reaching everyone in need.Unsheltered rates are also trending upward, impacting most racial, ethnic, and gender subgroups.In 2022, counts of individuals (421,392 people) and chronically homeless individuals (127,768) reached record highs in the history of data collection.Homelessness has been on the rise since 2017, experiencing an overall increase of 6 percent.The current edition of this report analyzes available data on homelessness for 2022 and over time.