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 ...
“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? And where is the ...
17. Fresno, California Homeless population: 4,493 Estimated rate of homelessness: 8.2 per 1,000 Change in homelessness, 2020-2023: 23% increase Next:16. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 11/29 Credit 16. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Homeless population: 4,725 Estimated rate of homelessness: 3.0 p...
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...
Further, COVID-19 could be responsible for hospitalization of an estimated 21,295 people who do not currently have housing, or about 4.3% of the nationwide homeless population, the researchers foundin a report finalized this week (PDF). Of those likely to be hospitalized nationwide, nearly 7,...
California has not been immune to this impact. Indeed, California has the largest homeless population in the United States, representing almost 21% of the nation's homeless. Amid severe budget cuts, cities throughout California have struggled with increased demands for housing and homeless support ...
President Trump has been highly critical of the homeless problem in California, and HUD said the increase seen in its January snapshot was caused "entirely" by a 16.4% increase in California's homeless population. "As we look across our nation, we see great progress, but we're also seeing...
000 homeless people when just counting the sheltered homeless population - rank 3 nevertheless. Other CoCs in the U.S. experiencing a high level of homelessness are San Diego, Denver, San Jose and Santa Clara in California with around 10,000 homeless people counted each. Out of the 10 Co...
A new study by the University of California, San Francisco shows that homeless people in California were struggling with poor health and deep poverty before becoming homeless.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s executive order on Thursday directing officials of the state with the largest homeless population in the nation to start removing homeless encampments was met with outrage from homeless advocates and elected officials.