Justice
America's Real Homeless Hotspots
An estimated 600,000 Americans are homeless, but the spread isn't uniform. Some cities have been hit harder than others.
The one upside of the uproar in Austin over using homeless people as wireless hotspots at this year's South by Southwest Interactive festival is that it's focused a bit more attention on the very real and very disturbing tragedy of homelessness in America.
An estimated 600,000 Americans are currently homeless, including nearly 70,000 veterans, according to the recently released The State of Homelessness in America from the National Alliance to End Homelessness. That's a small drop-off from 2009, but U.S. rates are alarmingly high: 21 homeless per 10,000 people across the country.