One of the fastest-growing sectors of the unhoused population is senior citizens, as people in their 60s and 70s. They get priced out of the market and they wind up unhoused. Jake Tapper Even so, the state of California is trying to tackle mental health and substance abuse by ...
Its board of directors approved the formation of a first-ever standing joint task force with the California State Association of Counties. This group of local elected officials and city and county staff is slated to meet for the first time during fall 2016 to discuss policy related to ...
Los Angeles County has developed this data-driven, multi-layered Geographic Information System (GIS) planning tool to help guide City and County policymakers’ efforts, both at the County and city level, to respond urgently and effectively to homelessness and inform the public and community stakehol...
" said Dr. Coley King, the clinic's director of homeless health care.There are more than 45,000 people experiencing homelessness in the city of Los Angeles, according to the city's Homeless Services Authority
City Limits - The L.A. Homelessness Crisis: Directed by Andrew Kowalski. A group of teenagers from St. Francis High School look into the causes of homelessness from different perspectives in the Los Angeles community. The complexity of the issue is explo
So far, San Francisco is the only city in California to report a large-scale outbreak at a homeless shelter, after more than 100 people tested positive, including 10 staff. None of the people was seriously ill when tested, but three have since been hospitalized, public health spokeswoman Rach...
homeless person and passerbyHomeless person sitting along Wall Street in New York City during the beginning of the Christmas holiday week, December 23, 2019. The 2019 HUD report found that nearly half of those experiencing homelessness lived in one of three states: California,New York, and Flor...
'An increase of 20% is not progress,' California Assembly Republicans say. December 31, 2024 11:24am PST US homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many people That increase comes on top of a 12% increase in 2023, which officials blamed on soaring rents and ...
While slightly over 10% of the US population lives in California, over 25% of the nation’s homeless reside in the Golden State, and nowhere is that statistic more visible than in the City of Los Angeles (Howle, 2018). Quantitative data from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAH...
California is home to nearly a third of allhomelesspeople in the U.S. — Tran Nguyen,Fortune, 12 Oct. 2023 The city has only one youth-specific shelter, The Nest, to address the needs of thousands ofhomelessyouths. — Jasmyne B. Ford,Baltimore Sun, 13 Dec. 2024 ...