20,000 families on the Navajo Reservation alone need housing .
Homelessness is rampant.
Education American Indian students, as a group, are the least successful public school students nationally. Some groups of Indians living in the southwestern United States are worse off economically than citizens of many third world countries. Local reservation economies often are devastated, and the economic disparity between the Southwest Indian communities and the rest of American society is growing. The health of American Indians is far worse than it is for any other minority group in the United States. Preventive programs are almost non-existent, and there is little hope for increased funding for Indian health care.