More than 75,000 people are homeless in Los Angeles County, California, marking an almost 10% increase in the unhoused population from 2022.
In a new annual point-in-time count released Thursday by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, it reported that 75,518 people in the county were either living in vehicles, tents, makeshift shelters, or provisional housing.Last year, there were 69,144 found to be living in such conditions, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Neither Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass nor Gov. Gavin Newsom responded to the Washington Examiner's request for comment. “We thought with last year’s numbers that we were flattening the curve. However, what we see in this trajectory is that people remain in a situation of vulnerability where they’re falling into homelessness faster than we can house them," she told reporters during a briefing.CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
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