In all, 78.3 percent of individuals experiencing homelessness were people of color. Contrast this with the general population — which is 73.8 percent white, 12.4 percent black, and 17.2 percent ...

Black people represent about 13% of the U.S. population and 40% of the nation’s homeless population. “If we can fix it for Black people, we can fix it for everyone,” Waggoner said ...

Black people make up 13.7 percent of the overall U.S. population yet account for 32.2 percent of the nation’s homeless population. White people, including some people of Hispanic descent, make ...

Homelessness experts and community leaders say vulnerability questionnaires have worsened racial disparities among the unhoused by systematically placing white people in front of the line ahead of ...

Race really is the elephant in the room because black people have shamed white people into not being able to bring up how racist black people are. This is just another example, we want to make blacks ...

On Tuesday, Black Lives Matter Morristown and the Morris County Office of Hispanic Affairs discussed the factors that keep people of color homeless and Morris County's own homeless population.

The county's 2019 point in time report shows Black people made up 16.1% of the houseless population—more than double their share of the general population in Multnomah County, which is 7.2%.

The numbers highlight the sharp racial inequity of homelessness in Los Angeles. Black residents make up roughly 8% of L.A. County‘s population, but 34% of its homeless population, according to ...

As early as April 2020, 32 percent of Black adults and 41 percent of Latinx adults experienced job loss due to the pandemic, compared with only 24 percent of white adults. 26 Black and Latina ...

Black people make up 13.7% of the overall U.S. population yet account for 32.2% of the nation’s homeless population. White people, including some people of Hispanic descent, make up 75% of the ...