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That's according to an exclusive CalMatters analysis of the latest results of the point-in-time count, a federally mandated census that requires counties to tally their unhoused residents over the ...
(The Center Square) - Newly released federal data says California’s homeless population grew to 187,084 at the start of 2024, up from 181,399 in 2023, ...
In 2022, the population of people experiencing homelessness was around 580,000. "The numbers are just mind-boggling to me," Ann Oliva, CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness, told USA TODAY.
California ranks second from the bottom among U.S. states in the number of housing units per capita. [19] As of 2021 California had only 24 homes that were considered affordable and available for each 100 of the lowest income renter households, putting the housing shortage in California for this category of renters at about one million homes.
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 ...
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]
More than 180,000 people live without housing in California, representing nearly a third of the U.S. homeless population, and the majority live outside, according to the U.S. Department of Housing ...
Its aim is to help advance state policies and programs designed to stabilize the population at a level which they feel "will preserve a good quality of life for all Californians". [3] It asserts that the current growth of population is "unsustainable" and contributes to a growing strain on the environment and infrastructure.