Oct 4, 2024
The state of California holds multiple first-place distinctions in the latest annual homeless report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development — but none of them are positive.
No. 1 in the number of homeless individuals. No. 1 in the number of unaccompanied youth that are homeless. No. 1 in “chronic patterns of homelessness.”
In LA County, the report puts the number of homeless individuals at 75,518, and 77% of households considered “extremely low-income” pay more than half of their income on housing.