Sec. 2. Congressional findings
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The Congress finds that— although the United States has experienced a reduction in veteran homelessness after a surge of new Federal funding targeted to homeless veterans starting in fiscal year 2008, major progress towards the national goals for ending homelessness in our Nation has virtually stalled in the absence of increased funding; according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2015 point-in-time count, there were 564,708 people experiencing homelessness in the United States on any given night, including 83,170 chronically homeless individuals; between 2014 and 2015, homelessness among major city Continuum of Care programs, which account for 48 percent of all homeless people in the U.S., increased by 3 percent; homelessness in many major cities has reached crisis proportions and some cities have declared that homelessness has reached a state of emergency; and the Federal Government must renew its commitment to the national goals to end homelessness.