California had 181,399 homeless people in January 2023, an increase of 5.8 percent from 2022, according to a national report released by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development last December. According to the report, California's homeless population accounted for 28 percent of the ...
That streak ended in 2020, when California lost population for the first time during a pivotal census year that led to the state losing a congressional seat. Newsom's partisan critics said the state's high cost of living, uncertain power supply, a housing and homelessness crisis and conc...
Los Angeles has a quarter of the state’s homeless population, about 45,000, and the staff report calculated that it would cost $2.2 billion a year for 10 years, of the city’s own funds and support from federal, state and county governments, to build enough housing for everyone now on...
ELK GROVE, Calif.-For almost a year, a California city has been paying itshomeless populationto keep their camps clean. The city of Elk Grove, located just south of the state capital of Sacramento with a population of more than 174,000, has the lowest rate of homelessness in the county....
California cities will soon face more state scrutiny and new penalties for pushing back on housing and homeless shelter construction. Gov.
illegally, its homeless population and its thicket of regulations. Trump also waded into a water rights battle over the endangered delta smelt, a tiny fish that has pitted environmentalists against farmers, and threatened to withhold federal aid to a state increasingly under threat from wil...
the past 20 years, not everyone in California is so lucky: In 2023, the poverty rate in California was about 12 percent, and the state had the fifth-highest rate of homelessness in the country during that same year, with an estimated 46 homeless people per 10,000 of the population. ...
homelessness has become one of the most frustrating issues in California and one sure to hound Newsom should he ever mount a national campaign. The state accounts for nearly a third of the homeless population in the United States; roughly 181,000 Californians are in need of housing. ...
“California has spent more than $20 BILLION over the last five years on the homelessness only to see the homeless population in California explode to more than 172,000, as the Globe has reported for many years,” the Globereportedlast year. What is that amount now?
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday issued an executive order directing officials in the state with the nation’s largest homeless populationto start removing homeless encampments– a move met with outrage from homeless advocates and elected officials. ...