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Long Beach, California's seventh most populous city, reported 3,296 people experiencing homelessness in 2022—a 62% increase from 2020. [97] In response, the city declared a state of emergency in January 2023 to streamline approval processes for homelessness-related contracts and projects.
New data shows nearly 186,000 people now live on the streets and in homeless shelters in California, proving the crisis continues to grow despite increasing state and local efforts to stem the tide.
After a period of progress and decline, the U.S. homeless population increased slightly in 2019, 2020 and 2022 before taking a major step up in 2023, according to the report. The US Cities With ...
A 2023 study published by the University of California, San Francisco found that around 90% of the homeless population of California lost their housing while living in the state. The research also revealed that around half of the homeless population is over 50 years old, with black residents disproportionately represented, that the majority of ...
(The Center Square) - The California beachside city of Carlsbad is proposing spending $81,503 per unsheltered homeless individual after its unsheltered homeless population grew 87% between 2023 ...
[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 ...
The Sacramento Bee notes that large cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles both attribute their recent increases in homeless people to the housing shortage, with the result that homelessness in California overall has increased by 15% from 2015 to 2017.
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.