Is Your State Winning The Fight Against Homelessness?

Even as the United States as a whole makes steady progress in its fight against homelessness, those gains are not experienced everywhere.

ThinkProgress examined data from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which compiles an annual count of homeless people across the nation. We looked at changes in states’ overall homeless populations between 2008 and 2013 to determine which states are winning the battle against homelessness and which are falling behind.