id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-3685 Homelessness in the United States - Wikipedia .html text/html 17910 2075 65 Annual federal HUD reports contradict private state and local reports where homelessness is shown to have increased each year since 201[when?] across several major American cities, with 40 percent increases noted in 2017[3] and in 2019.[4] In January of 2018 the federal government statistics gave comprehensive encompassing nationwide statistics, with a total number of 552,830 individuals, of which 358,363 (65%) were sheltered in provided housing, while some 194,467 (35%) were unsheltered.[5] Never adequately funded, the community mental health system struggled to meet patient needs[21] and many of the "deinstitutionalized" wound up living on the streets, with no sustainable support system.[22][23] In the United States, during the late 1970s, the deinstitutionalization of patients from state psychiatric hospitals was a precipitating factor which seeded the population of people that are homeless, especially in urban areas such as New York City.[24] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3685.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3685.txt