Persistent Disparities: Trends in Rates of Sheltered Homelessness Across Demographic Subgroups in the USA.

While homelessness is a public health problem, the hazard of experiencing homelessness is not uniformly distributed across different populations. Because homelessness is such a strong social determinant of health and risk factor across multiple health domains, it deserves the same careful annual tracking and evaluation by public health stakeholders as other areas of health and health care.