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CalMatters examines the state of California's homeless population in 2024.
In a survey of homeless adults in California, 45% rated their health as "poor or fair" and 60% reported having a chronic disease. [2]: 54 In March 2019 The Atlantic reported that outbreaks of what it called "Medieval diseases" such as tuberculosis and typhus were spreading in homeless shelters throughout California. These outbreaks have been ...
California was the state with the most immigrants in the U.S. illegally with some 2.2 million in 2022, according to estimates by the Center for Migration Studies of New York, a nonpartisan think tank.
The claim: Video shows ‘illegal immigrant housing facility’ A June 20 Instagram post shows images of a high-rise building, a bedroom, a fitness center and a conference room. “New illegal ...
[102] [103]: 1 Homeless persons in California now number 135,000 (a 15% increase from 2015). [83] A study by the California Housing Partnership found that from 2016 to 2017 homelessness increased by 47 percent in Sacramento County (home to the state's capital, Sacramento), 36 percent in Alameda County, and 13 percent in Santa Clara County.
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]
California has the largest homeless population in the nation, with more than 180,000 of the estimated 653,000 people experiencing homelessness nationwide residing in the Golden State, according to ...
Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass vowed to house thousands of people in her first year in office to reverse the city’s homelessness epidemic. She’s gotten thousands off the street, but unhoused ...