LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development released a report that stated there are more homeless than ever before in America.

And for the first time, the Point-In-Time homeless report included a breakdown of the gender of the homeless in 2024 expanding to eight different categories “to better reflect the ways in which people identify themselves.”

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The eight categories included “girl, boy, transgender, gender questioning, culturally specific identify, different identity, non binary and more than one gender.

There was a record 771,480 people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2024, according to the report. That included 3,287 people who identified as being “more than one gender” and 1,977 that were “non-binary.”

There was also a category for “Culturally Specific Identity” which the report gave “Two-spirit” as an example. Dictionary.com defined “Two-spirit” as “a third gender found in some Native American cultures, often involving birth-assigned men or women taking on the identities and roles of the opposite sex.” The report said there 324 “Culturally Specific Identity” homeless people in 2024.

There were 9,252 people who defined themselves as outside the traditional genders of man and woman, or about 1% of all homeless people in 2024.