AUSTIN, Texas – Advocates for Texas' homeless population are celebrating a federal report showing a significant reduction in the number of Texans who are homeless over the past decade.
According to the Department of Housing and Urban Development's annual count, homelessness in Texas dropped by almost 42 percent from 2007 to 2016 - a period when the state's overall population grew 13 percent. Eric Samuels, executive director at the Texas Homeless Network, said the progress is due to better funding and support, as well as new methods for housing the homeless.
"It's either permanent support housing or rapid re-housing, right away. They’re not moving people through emergency shelter and transitional housing programs,” Samuels said. "Because they're doing that and because they're directing their funding towards those programs, we're getting people out of homelessness faster."
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