The 50,000 homeless people estimated to live in L.A area.
- Santa Monica and along Venice Beach
- 12% increased from the previous year
Nationally, 12% decline
- But, increase 18% in San Francisco,
- 35% in Seattle
- 50% in Los Angeles, 59% New York.
An analysis by Chris Glynn and Emily Fox, two statisticians, predicts that a 10% increase in rents in a high-cost city like NY would result in an 8% increase in the number of homeless residents.
- Homelessness appears out of control in America
- Where in Honolulu, Seattle or Washington D.C
- High housing costs
- 133 homeless remove, 150 new homeless appear daily, says Mark Ridley-Thomas, of board of supervisors for LA.
- “Our homelessness budget is $462m, which is 25 times what it was in 2015,” says Christina Miller, the deputy mayor of LA.
source: economist, Oct. 19th-25th 2019