The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a 6.3 percent annual decrease in homelessness in the United States, the largest decline on record.
HUD said that on a single night in January 2026, 698,425 individuals were homeless, 6.3 percent fewer than January 2025, when President Donald Trump took office. The decline follows “historic border control and a Supreme Court victory reaffirming the right of local governments to limit dangerous encampments,” the department said.
In City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, the Supreme Court ruled in 2024 that a municipality enforcing camping bans on public property against homeless people did not constitute “cruel and unusual punishment” under the Eighth Amendment….