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Probably people abandoning/evicted from their $0-down-mortgage/ balloon payment/ predatory lending houses leading up to to the 2008 financial crisis.

https://www.reuters.com/article/banks-writedowns-losses-idCN...

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In January of 2007? The crisis hit a bit later, if you’re thinking about foreclosures. Housing prices were still up, and the housing market was tight. It may suggest that homeless is driven by real estate speculation. In other words hot economies cause homelessness to increase, not the converse.

Maybe I am misunderstanding it but I read that the survey here was taken in January 2023, and 2007 was compared to "when reporting began," which isn't specified where within 2007.

I assumed the 2007 year would be the same “1 night in January” method. But it occurs to me, reading your comment that maybe they didn’t mean 2007 was the second highest count, just that the collection only goes back to 2007. Again, terrible journalism.

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