Today, homelessness is now common in the United States as many people have become homeless, many people have had to leave the places where they lived, or simply could not continue to pay rent. Some examples are due to rising food prices. ,gas or household items, lack of employment, most common of these recently in 2022 30% of all homeless people in the United States resided in California, including half of all people without shelter (115,491 in California; 233,832 in the US).

Previously, the homeless were few in the United States since there was not much inflation in the country. Examples of homeless people were due to lack of employment or just didn't want to work to support themselves and started camping in big cities like los angeles, new york, brooklyn