Homelessness recently took on crisis proportions in Delaware when the population doubled from 2020 to 2022. Federal COVID-related assistance, such as emergency housing in otherwise unused hotels and motels, brought out people who had previously lived invisibly in encampments, cars, abusive situations, doubled up with others and otherwise precarious living arrangements. Even after the COVID assistance waned, over 1,350 people are still homeless in Delaware on a given night.