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March 20, 2024 - 5:00pm | By Tom Tucker
(St. Paul, MN) -- Homelessness in Minnesota has gone down slightly in the past five years.
That's according to a new study from the nonprofit Wilder Research, which found that nearly 11-thousand people were experiencing homelessness on a single night last year.
That's a seven-percent decline from the record high in 2018, but researchers note that a gap in data from 2018 to 2023 means there could've been fluctuations in homelessness.
The study also found that a third of people experiencing homelessness in the state weren't staying in formal shelters, and nearly half are families with children under the age of 18.
The nonprofit typically conducts the study every three years, but it was canceled in 2021 due to the presence of Covid-19.
