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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.
From 2012 to 2022, California's homeless population increased by 43%, while Texas's decreased by 28%. [70]: • 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%.
Los Angeles has a quarter of California’s homeless population. Mayor Karen Bass has vowed to house thousands in her first year in office. ... to be an unhoused person’s first contact than an ...
With a population of about 110,000 people, about 9.7% of the total population of the Contra Costa County, Richmond is a 55.4% contributor to Contra Costa County homeless shelter beds. Homeless people from across the Bay Area are sent to Richmond shelters, making it hard for the City of Richmond to deal with the city's own homeless population.
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About 100 homeless advocates gathered at the California Capitol on Tuesday to plead that the governor and legislators preserve funding to fight the state’s homelessness crisis as they consider ...
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 ...
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