The huge decrease in homelessness in North Dakota is probably due to the end of the fracking boom. The map compares the homelessness rate from 2015 to 2020, and 2015 was just a few years after the height of the boom. During the early 2010s rents in North Dakota shot up enormously as tens of thousands of workers poured into the state to support the industry. There wasn't enough existing housing to support the newcomers so there was a lot of crowding into trailers etc. and it's no surprise that a lot of people ended up homeless.
Fracking has leveled off for the past few years and many of the workers have moved back to other oil fields so homelessness has decreased dramatically.
Fracking has leveled off for the past few years and many of the workers have moved back to other oil fields so homelessness has decreased dramatically.