The US unsheltered homeless population has fallen by nearly 32 percent since 2007.
Normally, one would expect the homeless population to rise during an economic downturn. But apart from an uptick in 2010, homelessness has declined in the US since the financial crisis. Better yet, the decline comes entirely because there are fewer unsheltered homeless people. The sheltered population ticked up a bit, but mostly, homelessness fell overall.