Number of homeless residents in Los Angeles County decreases in annual count
6 months, 1 week ago

Number of homeless residents in Los Angeles County decreases in annual count

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — The number of homeless residents counted in Los Angeles County has dipped slightly, decreasing by about 0.3% since last year as California continues to struggle with the long-running crisis of tens of thousands of people sleeping in cars and encampments. Results released Friday from a federally required tally conducted in January found 75,312 people were homeless on any given night across the county, compared with 75,518 in 2023. Janice Hahn, a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, said in a statement that “For the first time in years, the number of people sleeping on our streets is down and the number of people in our shelters is up.” The estimates were released on the same day the Supreme Court cleared the way for cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside in public places, overturning a California appeals court ruling that found such laws amount to cruel and unusual punishment when shelter space is lacking. Volunteers with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority fanned out across the county in January for the annual report’s main component, the unsheltered street tally.

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Letters to the Editor: These problems will always prevent L.A. from solving homelessness
5 days, 10 hours ago

Letters to the Editor: These problems will always prevent L.A. from solving homelessness

LA Times  

To the editor: Both the city and county of Los Angeles are considering breaking up the L.A. According to LAHSA, the number of people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County declined by 0.27% in 2024 compared to 2023. Nationally, for every 100 people who exited homelessness in 2024, another 118 entered into homelessness, according to the federal government. So the …

Editorial: Think twice before breaking up the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority
1 week, 3 days ago

Editorial: Think twice before breaking up the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Council member Nithya Raman, left, now former City Council member Paul Krekorian and LAHSA Chief Executive Va Lecia Adams Kellum kick off the first night of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s 2024 homeless count in North Hollywood on Jan. 23. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority is the closest the city and county have had to …

US homelessness surges 18% in 2024 as affordable housing crisis deepens
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2 weeks ago

US homelessness surges 18% in 2024 as affordable housing crisis deepens

India Today  

The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts of the country, federal officials said Friday. “No American should face homelessness, and the Biden-Harris Administration is committed to ensuring every family has access …

US homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many people
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2 weeks ago

US homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many people

Associated Press  

The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a dramatic rise driven mostly by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts of the country, federal officials said Friday. “No American should face homelessness, and the Biden-Harris Administration is committed to ensuring every family has access …

U.S. homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many people
2 weeks, 1 day ago

U.S. homelessness up 18% as affordable housing remains out of reach for many people

LA Times  

The United States saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, a rise driven by a lack of affordable housing as well as devastating natural disasters and a surge of migrants in several parts of the country, federal officials said Friday. “No American should face homelessness, and the Biden-Harris Administration is committed to ensuring every family has access to the …

Opinion: On homelessness, liberal California and the ultraconservative Supreme Court largely agree
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Opinion: On homelessness, liberal California and the ultraconservative Supreme Court largely agree

LA Times  

What does a small, solidly Republican city in Oregon have in common with California’s largest liberal enclaves? California’s response to the ruling has become a vivid reminder of not just the intractability of the homelessness epidemic but also the tension between national liberal politics and local policy in Democratic-dominated states and cities. Roughly 84% of the state’s voters believe homelessness …

A radical reshaping of L.A. County’s homeless services system is proposed
1 month, 2 weeks ago

A radical reshaping of L.A. County’s homeless services system is proposed

LA Times  

Los Angeles City Council President Paul Krekorian, from right, and L.A. County Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Kathryn Barger join other volunteers to count the homeless in North Hollywood on Jan. 23. Responding to long-standing dissatisfaction over the effectiveness of homelessness programs, Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Kathryn Barger are proposing a new county department that would take over hundreds of millions …

Nearly half of L.A.’s record homelessness budget went unspent, city controller finds
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Nearly half of L.A.’s record homelessness budget went unspent, city controller finds

LA Times  

Mayor Karen Bass, left, chats with Jawonna Smith before Smith was moved from a tent to a motel under the Inside Safe program. Nearly half of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ record $1.3-billion homelessness budget for fiscal 2023-24 went unspent, an analysis by the city controller found. According to Mejia, the city spent or encumbered only about 30% of its …

Editorial: L.A. County voters agreed to another tax to reduce homelessness. Let’s make sure it does
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Editorial: L.A. County voters agreed to another tax to reduce homelessness. Let’s make sure it does

LA Times  

Los Angeles County got a gift from voters: They passed Measure A, a half-cent-per-dollar sales tax that will provide a billion dollars a year for services and housing for homeless people. It’s imperative that L.A. city and county officials and civic leaders use that money efficiently and transparently to get people the help and housing they need. The county made …

L.A. County homeless tax ahead in early returns. Voters deadlocked on enlarging board of supes
2 months ago

L.A. County homeless tax ahead in early returns. Voters deadlocked on enlarging board of supes

LA Times  

L.A. County voters will decide the fate of Measure A, which would double the quarter-cent sales tax voters approved in 2017 for homeless services. A ballot measure aimed at enlarging the pot of money available for homeless services in Los Angeles County was ahead in early returns Tuesday night, while voters were deadlocked on another measure expanding the county Board …

Los Angeles’ $22-billion homelessness problem gives leaders a choice: Double down or change strategies
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Los Angeles’ $22-billion homelessness problem gives leaders a choice: Double down or change strategies

LA Times  

City of Los Angeles officials are finally confronting a question that has seemed too big to answer: How much would it actually cost to get every person living on the street today indoors and make sure that no one languished there for years again? “In other ways, it doesn’t seem that eye-popping to me for the scale of the problem.” …

US is on track to set a new record for homeless people with over 650K living on the streets
3 months, 2 weeks ago

US is on track to set a new record for homeless people with over 650K living on the streets

The Independent  

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The under-the-radar proposal to end homelessness in Los Angeles for $20 billion
3 months, 4 weeks ago

The under-the-radar proposal to end homelessness in Los Angeles for $20 billion

LA Times  

A homeless man waits for transportation to housing as Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe program employees along with the Sanitation Bureau clean up homeless encampments along Hollywood Boulevard and Gower Street in Hollywood in August. It would cost $20.4 billion to end homelessness in Los Angeles in a decade, a price tag requiring local, state and federal governments to more …

Bass vows not to bus homeless people out for 2028 Olympics. But what will L.A. do?
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Bass vows not to bus homeless people out for 2028 Olympics. But what will L.A. do?

LA Times  

In Paris, the French government packed homeless people and migrants onto buses and sent them out of the city as the Summer Olympics approached. Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe initiative went to Hollywood Boulevard on Thursday, moving about three dozen people indoors. Mayor Karen Bass’ Inside Safe program senior director Annetta Wells, right, coordinates with the Los Angeles Sanitation Bureau …

As San Francisco cracks down on homeless encampments, a question rises: Where will people go?
5 months, 1 week ago

As San Francisco cracks down on homeless encampments, a question rises: Where will people go?

LA Times  

Outreach workers, backed by law enforcement officers, have fanned out across San Francisco in recent days in targeted efforts to dismantle some of the city’s most visible encampments. A week into what Mayor London Breed has called a “very aggressive” effort to clear homeless encampments across San Francisco, a key question looms: Where will the people living in those tents …

Homeless encampment cleanups do little to change numbers of people on the street, study finds
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Homeless encampment cleanups do little to change numbers of people on the street, study finds

LA Times  

Inside Safe workers clean up a homeless camp at 86th Street and Broadway to get people out of the encampment and into hotel and motel rooms June 26, 2024, in Los Angeles. “They just tend to move them around and the numbers tend to return in our relatively small area to previous trends pretty quickly.” Dwight Thomas, 62, right, gathers …

Editorial: Drop in L.A.’s homeless population shows efforts to house people are paying off
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Editorial: Drop in L.A.’s homeless population shows efforts to house people are paying off

LA Times  

Wah Chen, 52, counts a homeless man sleeping next to his tent while participating in the second night of the 2024 Los Angeles County homeless count on Jan. 24. The results of the 2024 point-in-time homeless count released Friday show a 2.2% drop in the population of unhoused people living in the city of Los Angeles, from 46,260 in 2023 …

For the first time since 2018, homeless count finds fewer people living on L.A. streets
6 months, 2 weeks ago

For the first time since 2018, homeless count finds fewer people living on L.A. streets

LA Times  

After climbing for the last five years, overall homelessness leveled off in Los Angeles this year, with fewer people living on the streets, according to the annual count released Friday. “These shifts in both the city and the county mean that this year, across our region, more people are experiencing homelessness inside, where they are safer, where they have food, …

Editorial: Lack of housing is pushing more seniors onto the streets. That’s on all of us
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Editorial: Lack of housing is pushing more seniors onto the streets. That’s on all of us

LA Times  

All homelessness is troubling. A new study, “Toward Dignity: Understanding Older Adult Homelessness” by the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at the University of California, San Francisco, took a deep look at the aging homeless population in California. For them all, housing had been precarious to start with — 46% of older homeless people did not have a rental lease …

Sacramento homeless count shows a 29% drop. But are the results ‘outstanding’ or ‘unbelievable’?
7 months ago

Sacramento homeless count shows a 29% drop. But are the results ‘outstanding’ or ‘unbelievable’?

LA Times  

Sacramento officials were elated this week when the results of a biennial point-in-time count showed that the observed local homeless population had declined by a whopping 29% — the biggest decrease city and county leaders had seen in more than a decade. “There are still too many people who are homeless for us to declare victory, but maybe homelessness is …

Homelessness down in Long Beach, up in Orange County, latest counts find
8 months ago

Homelessness down in Long Beach, up in Orange County, latest counts find

LA Times  

Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson announces the results of the 2024 homeless point-in-time count, which found there were 3,376 people experiencing homelessness in the city, a 2.1% decrease from the year before. For the first time in seven years, the city of Long Beach saw local homelessness decline year over year — but officials in next-door Orange County were disappointed …

Bass budget would reduce homelessness funding, scale back LAPD hiring goal
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Bass budget would reduce homelessness funding, scale back LAPD hiring goal

LA Times  

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass delivered her second State of the City Address at City Hall last week. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass proposed a $12.8 billion budget on Monday that would reduce spending on homelessness initiatives, scale back an effort to hire more police officers and eliminate more than 2,100 vacant positions. The mayor’s team said her proposed budget …

Meet the homeless L.A. immigrants who built a DIY home in gentrifying Highland Park
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Meet the homeless L.A. immigrants who built a DIY home in gentrifying Highland Park

LA Times  

In a city of multimillion-dollar houses and celebrity estates, Cesar Augusto’s home stands apart. The rectangular shelter appears above the channel like a section of a wood-paneled suburban basement, and a sign hangs near the entrance: “Ponte trucha,” or “Stay sharp.” Augusto climbs a ladder up the steep wall of the channel to reach his makeshift shelter, another example of …

Editorial: L.A. officials lied to justify seizing homeless people’s belongings. That’s despicable
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Editorial: L.A. officials lied to justify seizing homeless people’s belongings. That’s despicable

LA Times  

Ry Thounry packs up her tent on the Main Street overpass above the 101 Freeway in downtown Los Angeles while sanitation crews move in to clean the homeless encampment. Plaintiff Pete Diocson, Jr., a homeless man in Harbor City, had his dog’s wire kennel seized and discarded because sanitation workers and Los Angeles Police Department officers told him it was …

Man builds entire home next to LA freeway
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Man builds entire home next to LA freeway

The Independent  

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Letters to the Editor: California doesn’t know if $20 billion spent on homelessness has worked. Who gets fired?
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Letters to the Editor: California doesn’t know if $20 billion spent on homelessness has worked. Who gets fired?

LA Times  

An encampment under the 101 Freeway in Hollywood is cleared on March 7. To the editor: As much an opponent of added bureaucracy as I am, it amazes me that California has not created a new agency whose sole job is to fight homelessness. But The Times reports that the council created to monitor the $20 billion the state has …

Mayor Karen Bass urges L.A.’s wealthy to fund homeless housing
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Mayor Karen Bass urges L.A.’s wealthy to fund homeless housing

LA Times  

L.A. Mayor Karen Bass delivers her second State of the City address at City Hall on Monday. “And now we must prevail on the humanity and generosity of the private sector.” The pitch comes as Bass is working to break a logjam that has limited the city’s ability to move homeless Angelenos out of interim housing, such as hotel and …

How effective are California's homelessness programs? State hasn't been tracking
9 months ago

How effective are California's homelessness programs? State hasn't been tracking

The Independent  

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How effective are California’s homelessness programs? Audit finds state hasn’t been keeping track
9 months ago

How effective are California’s homelessness programs? Audit finds state hasn’t been keeping track

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness over the past five years but didn’t consistently track whether the huge outlay of public money actually improved the situation, according to state audit released Tuesday. Despite the roughly billions of dollars spent on more than 30 homeless and housing programs during the 2018-2023 fiscal years, California doesn’t have reliable …

Opinion: I’ve covered California’s homeless since before the word was used. This is what I learned
9 months ago

Opinion: I’ve covered California’s homeless since before the word was used. This is what I learned

LA Times  

A man removes some of his his belongings from a flooded camp along the Sacramento River. Last year, state Sen. Anna Caballero proposed legislation that would have eased approval of small “starter homes” in areas restricted to single-family housing. As in California, Democrats opposed to the plan used code language: “local control,” “overcrowding,” “traffic.” New York state Assemblyman Phil Ramos …

Opinion: Why is California behind Texas and other states in curbing homelessness?
9 months ago

Opinion: Why is California behind Texas and other states in curbing homelessness?

LA Times  

Rent is surging nationwide. Texas cities also stand out: Last year, the Houston metropolitan area achieved the lowest rate of homelessness of any major U.S. city, with just 52 people per 100,000 residents experiencing homelessness. Meanwhile, five of the top 10 major cities with the highest rates of homelessness nationally are in California: San Francisco, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland …

Many homeless in L.A. died from drugs in 2023, preliminary data show
9 months, 1 week ago

Many homeless in L.A. died from drugs in 2023, preliminary data show

LA Times  

Tents line the sidewalk at a homeless encampment in the Rampart Village neighborhood of Los Angeles in November 2021. Data released Thursday by City Controller Kenneth Mejia show at least 898 homeless people died last year on streets, in shelters, on freeways and elsewhere. Mejia’s report, which analyzed Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner preliminary data, did not break …

Editorial: Why is the federal government refusing to pay L.A. $60 million for housing homeless people?
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Editorial: Why is the federal government refusing to pay L.A. $60 million for housing homeless people?

LA Times  

Genia Hope moves into her new room at a hotel that is being used for Project Roomkey in Whittier on July 7, 2020. Project Roomkey was launched by state officials in April 2020 to protect homeless people considered high-risk — because they were over 65 or medically fragile — by moving them off the street and into empty motel and …

A year ago, L.A. County declared homelessness a state of emergency. Is it working?
10 months, 4 weeks ago

A year ago, L.A. County declared homelessness a state of emergency. Is it working?

LA Times  

A line of campers along Jefferson Boulevard in Marina del Rey in 2023. Los Angeles County’s Pathway Home program targets RV encampments, cleaning up the RVs and moving residents into interim or permanent housing. On Tuesday, the supervisors heard from Cheri Todoroff, executive director of the L.A. County Homeless Initiative, who said the emergency order declared in January 2023 “absolutely …

Editorial: Here’s how Los Angeles can help prevent people from falling into homelessness
11 months ago

Editorial: Here’s how Los Angeles can help prevent people from falling into homelessness

LA Times  

Laura Ayala, left, signs up in January for an information seminar on tenants rights with Bianca Lopez, an outreach worker for We Are Los Angeles, a project of the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles. There’s no question that Los Angeles needs more permanent housing for people who are already homeless. But without more homelessness prevention, waves of people will continue …

Photos: 2024 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is underway
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Photos: 2024 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is underway

LA Times  

The annual three-night Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is underway with volunteers fanning out to tally the number of unsheltered individuals, tents, vehicles and makeshift shelters they see in their assigned census tract. The 2023 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count revealed a 9% year-over-year increase in homelessness in Los Angeles County and a 10% rise in Los Angeles. While participating …

Annual count of homeless residents begins in Los Angeles, where tens of thousands live on streets
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Annual count of homeless residents begins in Los Angeles, where tens of thousands live on streets

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County’s annual count of homeless residents began Tuesday night — a crucial part of the region’s efforts to confront the crisis of tens of thousands of people living on the streets. Up to 6,000 volunteers with the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority fanned out for the effort’s main component, the unsheltered street tally. AP AUDIO: …

Homelessness is down in South L.A. But nearly 13,000 remain unhoused
1 year ago

Homelessness is down in South L.A. But nearly 13,000 remain unhoused

LA Times  

A string of tents and makeshift shelters sat for years west of the 110 Freeway, across the street from an elementary school in the Vermont Vista neighborhood. While homelessness increased in other parts of the city, South L.A. had 10% fewer unhoused people than the previous year, according to the annual point-in-time count conducted last January. Karen McGee, a homelessness …

One year on, has the mayor of LA finally put a dent in homelessness?
1 year ago

One year on, has the mayor of LA finally put a dent in homelessness?

The Independent  

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Thirty years ago, Time magazine asked if L.A. was ‘going to hell.’ Are we there yet?
1 year ago

Thirty years ago, Time magazine asked if L.A. was ‘going to hell.’ Are we there yet?

LA Times  

The freeways are clogged with cars. And the question it asks is even more ominous: “Is the City of Angels Going to Hell?” The accompanying story, titled “Unhealed Wounds,” is a portrait of a divided city in the wake of the 1992 riots sparked by the acquittal of the Los Angeles Police Department officers who had beaten Rodney King. Time …

Homeless numbers in Los Angeles could surge again, even as thousands move to temporary shelter
1 year ago

Homeless numbers in Los Angeles could surge again, even as thousands move to temporary shelter

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — In the hours after being elected mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass made a promise that will be an inescapable metric of her time in office: “We are going to solve homelessness.” The Democratic member of Congress, who had been on then-candidate Joe Biden’s short list for vice president, envisioned streets clear of more than 40,000 homeless …

Column: Is L.A. actually solving homelessness? The answer will start with perception, not reality
1 year, 1 month ago

Column: Is L.A. actually solving homelessness? The answer will start with perception, not reality

LA Times  

Mayor Karen Bass, accompanied by HUD official Richard J. Monocchio, left, and City Councilmembers Nithya Raman, far left, Hugo Soto-Martinez and Bob Blumenfield, speak to reporters in Hollywood on Wednesday. “I do really worry that it’s become normalized in public discourse to speak about people experiencing homelessness as, like, a problem for those who are not homeless — as opposed …

Bass says L.A. has put 21,000 homeless people into interim housing. Here’s what that means
1 year, 1 month ago

Bass says L.A. has put 21,000 homeless people into interim housing. Here’s what that means

LA Times  

Mayor Karen Bass speaks with Darnell Woods after a news conference in Hollywood on Selma Avenue, which was once home to dozens of unhoused residents. Over the past year, Los Angeles city and county agencies have moved more than 21,000 unhoused Angelenos into interim housing — motel rooms, shelter beds, tiny home villages and an assortment of other sites, Mayor …

Los Angeles criticized for its handling of homelessness after 16 unhoused people escape freeway fire
1 year, 1 month ago

Los Angeles criticized for its handling of homelessness after 16 unhoused people escape freeway fire

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — The fire erupted after midnight under a Los Angeles freeway where 16 people were living, including a pregnant woman who was only weeks from giving birth. Three years ago, as part of a court order related to a yearslong lawsuit accusing the city and county of Los Angeles of not doing enough to address homelessness, a judge …

Los Angeles criticized for its handling of homelessness after 16 homeless people escape freeway fire
1 year, 1 month ago

Los Angeles criticized for its handling of homelessness after 16 homeless people escape freeway fire

The Independent  

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Opinion: I run an L.A. homeless services organization. But I can’t afford to live in L.A. anymore
1 year, 2 months ago

Opinion: I run an L.A. homeless services organization. But I can’t afford to live in L.A. anymore

LA Times  

Efforts to house people, which include hundreds of millions of dollars spent on shelter, permanent housing and outreach, have failed to stem the growth of street encampments in Los Angeles. But this time, because of the double whammy of the housing affordability crisis in Los Angeles and the lack of housing security, my family isn’t looking for another place here …

Letters to the Editor: This housing project isn’t ‘down the street.’ It’s right next to single-family homes
1 year, 2 months ago

Letters to the Editor: This housing project isn’t ‘down the street.’ It’s right next to single-family homes

LA Times  

A proposed 33-bed interim homelessness shelter at the site of a city parking lot on Midvale Avenue in West L.A. has drawn backlash from housed residents nearby. To the editor: Your editorial on the local opposition to a temporary housing project for homeless people in a West L.A. residential neighborhood failed to include any objective data or arguments on why …

L.A.’s mayor declared a homeless emergency. A new lawsuit says it should be repealed
1 year, 3 months ago

L.A.’s mayor declared a homeless emergency. A new lawsuit says it should be repealed

LA Times  

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass appears with Councilmember Traci Park in January at a community reception where attendees thanked them for their work on homelessness. A Westside-based nonprofit group filed a lawsuit Monday that seeks to strike down Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass’ declaration of a local emergency on homelessness and housing, calling it a “vast and illegal expansion of …

Following L.A.’s footsteps, Alameda County declares state of emergency on homelessness
1 year, 3 months ago

Following L.A.’s footsteps, Alameda County declares state of emergency on homelessness

LA Times  

Raymond Joseph and Regina Carter embrace at an encampment off Martin Luther King Jr. Way and 23rd Street in Oakland in October 2020. Following in the footsteps of the city and county of Los Angeles, Alameda County this week declared a state of emergency regarding homelessness amid rising numbers of unhoused people in the region. This week’s move aims to …

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