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An attempted closure that led to 150 people being removed from The Jungle occurred in May 2012. [9] However, people eventually returned to the site. [9] In July 2013, the San Jose City Council agreed upon a $4 million budget to provide housing for homeless Jungle inhabitants, which marked the beginning of a permanent eviction process. [9]
San Diego County counted 9,160 homeless people in 2017, decreasing to 8,576 in 2018—then the fourth-highest count in the United States. [104] In 2023, 10,203 homeless people were counted, a 14% increase from 2022. [105] The homeless veteran population reached 814 in 2023, rising 17% from the previous year. [106]
Crime and violence within tent cities and homeless communities, including rival homeless encampments and individuals, has been an issue amongst homeless populations in the Bay Area and in North America. In 2021, news reports of a 39-year-old homeless man allegedly assaulting two elderly people in Market Street, San Francisco made headlines. It ...
Center, Dan Harp and Adrian Bautista, of Collaborative Support Programs of New Jersey, meet with Donna, a woman who has been living in a tent for years in Bergen County on Wednesday March 27, 2024.
Santa Cruz, California: There are about 1,200 to 1,700 homeless in Santa Cruz, 3.5% of the city; many had lived or are living in Ross Camp [22] (200 people) and San Lorenzo Park (up to 300 people; closed in late 2022 [23]). Homeless tent city in Fremont Park, Santa Rosa, California, in August 2020. Tents of homeless people in San Francisco, 2017
According to the New York City Department of Homeless Services’ daily census, more than 86,000 people in New York City were housed in the shelter system as of Friday, including more than 32,000 ...
A tent city in Oakland California, E. 12th Street, set up by local homeless people, 2019. About 0.4% of Californians and people who live in the state (161,000) are homeless. In 2017, California had an oversized share of the nation's homeless: 22%, for a state whose residents make up only 12% of the country's total population.
In the USA, federal funding for transitional housing programs was originally allocated in the McKinney–Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1986. [2] In 2022, the Transitional Housing Program, awarded 72 recipients, spending over $35.6 million in the program.