Washington, UNITED STATES
A homeless woman sits on a bench few blocks away from the White House in downtown Washington
A homeless woman sits on a bench few blocks away from the White House in downtown Washington, September 1, 2015. A report by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments gave a one-day "snap-shot" that counted more than 11,600 homeless people on January 28 in nine metropolitan Washington area jurisdictions. A lack of affordable housing, combined with stagnant or falling wages, has been cited by experts as a key contributing factor to homelessness in a number of U.S. cities. REUTERS/Carlos Barria