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While the national homeless population decreased by 18% between 2010 and 2020, California's increased by 31%. [10] This trend continued from 2020 to 2022, when California's homeless population grew by 6% while the rest of the country saw an increase of less than 0.5%.
The count is up slightly from last year's tally of about 181,000, and up 8% from 2022 (the last year most California counties counted people living in encampments).
[5] [6] Most homeless people lived in California, New York, Florida, and Washington in 2022, according to the annual Homeless Assessment Report. [7] The majority of homeless people in the United States have been homeless for less than one year; two surveys by YouGov in 2022 and 2023 found that just under 20 percent of Americans reported having ...
Mental illness in Alaska is a current epidemic that the state struggles to manage. The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness stated that as of January 2018, Alaska had an estimated 2,016 citizens experiencing homelessness on any given day while around 3,784 public school students experienced homelessness over the course of the year as well. [10]
The report found that Sacramento has about 6,600 homeless people, a decrease from previous years. ... during the preceding count in February 2022, and 41% fewer homeless people sleeping outside ...
Although more people are being housed in the state year-over-year — 63,237 in 2022 and 72,298 in 2023 — more people are newly becoming homeless — 162,684 in 2022 and 184,334 in 2023.
Former state assemblyman Mike Gatto, in a 2018 opinion piece, proposed that a new form of detention be created as a method to force mentally ill homeless people and those with a substance use problem (who make up two-thirds of California's homeless population) off the streets and into treatment. [105]
The U.S. homeless population has increased by roughly 40% since Trump's first inauguration.