• In most major cities, the official estimated number of homeless people greatly exceeds the number of emergency shelter and transitional housing spaces.
• Approximately 38.7 million people go through life without health care services due to unemployment or homelessness.
• The shortage of affordable rental housing
  and a simultaneous increase in poverty are largely responsible the rise in homelessness, according to the National Coalition for the Homeless.
• A recent U.S. Conference of Mayors report indicates that domestic violence is a primary cause of homelessness among women.
• Domestic abuse accounts for approximately 34% of women living in homelessness.
• One recent survey reported that about 25% of the urban homeless population are employed.

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