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....
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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 ...
In the United States, the Department of Housing and Urban Development calculates the homeless population by counting the number of people on the streets and the number of people in homeless shelters on one night each year. According to this count, Los Angeles City and New York City are the...
When analyzing the ratio of homelessness to state population, New York, Vermont, and Oregon had the highest rates in 2023. However, Washington, D.C. had an estimated 73 homeless individuals per 10,000 people, which was significantly higher than any of the 50 states. Homeless people by rac...
“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?
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...
Homelessness went down in 30 states around the country, according to the report. But some states saw big increases in homeless population, including North Dakota, California, New Mexico and Vermont. At least 10 city and county governments in the West Coast declared states of emergency in respons...
Locally, the issue is front and center, too: 70 percent of San Francisco residents cite homelessness among the top three problems in the city.1 And while California is on track to become the fourth-largest economy in the world,2 it also hosts half of the un...
No place in the country is feeling the cold more than the Upper Midwest, where below freezing temperatures are downright life threatening. In Chicago, authorities in are deeply concerned about the city’s homeless population and have stepped up efforts at outreach. ...