Homelessness: 51% Say It’s Gotten Worse in Past Year
One year into President Donald Trump’s second term, most Americans don’t see much change in the country’s homeless problem.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 51% of American Adults think the problem of homelessness in America has gotten worse in the past year. That’s down from 61% who, in October 2024, believed the problem had gotten worse during Joe Biden’s four years in office. However, just 11% now say homelessness has gotten better in the past year, while 32% think the problem has stayed about the same. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
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The survey of 1,272 American Adults was conducted on January 25-27, 2026 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC.
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