Housing in Delaware

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 448,735 housing units in Delaware in 2020.^[2] There were an estimated 1,165 homeless individuals in Delaware in 2020, according to the Annual Homeless Assessment Report.^[3]

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development administers programs that provide housing and community development assistance in the United States.^[4] Adequate housing is recognized as human right in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.^[5]