A record number of well over half a million Americans are homeless as rents continue to surge‚ a new report finds. About 653‚000 people reported being homeless in January of last year‚ according to a report released Thursday by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. That’s up about 12% from the same time the previous year in 2022‚ the largest single-year increase ever recorded‚ the report says. About 71‚000 more people were homeless last year than the year before. Even more...