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CalMatters examines the state of California's homeless population in 2024. ... a program manager for the Homeless Services Division of San Luis Obispo County, which saw a 19% dip in homelessness ...
From 2012 to 2022, California's state-wide homeless population increased by 43%, while Texas's decreased by 28%. [76]: 1 For select cities and localities, the divergence was even greater, with Sacramento County's homelessness increasing by 230% over the same period, Los Angeles County's increasing by 106%, while Houston's decreased by 57%. [76]
Project Roomkey demonstrated an effective collaboration between public and private entities. This method is increasingly popular in the public health sector. [46] There were disparities in program accessibility, with a majority of participants being white, despite people of color forming a significant unhoused population.
In 2024, LACAN organizer Adam Smith criticized Los Angeles' prioritization of criminalization over addressing homelessness, citing the failure of policies like LAMC 41.18, which resulted in belongings of unhoused residents being confiscated without adequate housing or shelter alternatives, as revealed in a recent LACAN survey of 100 individuals.
Homeless people living in Fresno County outside of city limits made up 12% of the population, while those in the city of Madera accounted for about 5%. Roughly 1% of the unhoused population lived ...
Unaffordability and the pandemic have driven several years of population loss in California, a trend that continued in 2022, when the state lost around 138,400 people, a 0.35% loss.
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. The California State Auditor found in their April 2018 report Homelessness in California, that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development noted that "California had about 134,000 ...
Texas, California and Florida have the highest numbers of unaccompanied homeless youth under the age of 18; comprising 58% of the total homeless under 18 youth population. [59] Street children in the United States tend to stay in the state. 83% do not leave their state of origin. [128]