Housing Crisis Escalates As 13,000 Become Homeless Each Month in Los Angeles County
Housing Crisis Escalates As 13,000 Become Homeless Each Month in Los Angeles County
Chronic homelessness is such a daunting problem in Los Angeles County that even after 10,000 people were moved into housing in the last three years, about 13,000 people on public assistance slip into homelessness every month, a new study has revealed.
The number of people who become chronically homeless overwhelms the dwindling supply of affordable housing, according to a report released Tuesday by the Economic Roundtable, a research organization based in Los Angeles.
“Ending chronic homelessness will be feasible if fewer people become homeless,” said Daniel Flaming, author of the report. “This requires the combined resources of health, mental health, social service, education, justice system and housing agencies to restore a place in the community for homeless individuals.”
The report, titled “All Alone,” said there is not enough help for children and young adults at risk of homelessness. It estimates that 42 percent of people who experience homelessness do not receive the help they need to become housed. Half of all homeless public assistance recipients are children.
The report concludes that providing help for children and young adults is crucial “to reduce the feeder pipeline from childhood poverty and homelessness into adult chronic homelessness.”
The report recommends that public assistance programs start flagging “tripwire events” that lead to homelessness – from children not attending school regularly and long-term unemployment of parents to domestic violence – and connect them to agencies that can help them quickly.
The analysis looked at records of 9 million county residents on public assistance at any time between 2002 and 2010.
Susie Shannon, executive director of the non-profit Poverty Matters, is not shocked by the high numbers. “Our recent homeless count showed a 12 percent increase (44,000 people) in homelessness both in Los Angeles County and the city of Los Angeles,” she said.
The most urgent intervention, she says, is financial. “The answer to keeping someone in their home is rental assistance,” she said.
Shannon says the report should have focused more on the dire need for affordable housing and the bureaucratic barriers to getting it. The wait in Los Angeles County for Section 8 federal housing vouchers was 10 years in 1999, and the waiting list closed in 2004, the report noted.
When applicants are issued federal vouchers for low-income housing, they may not be able to receive it without a home address. Homeless can’t get a post office box because the U.S. Postal Service requires a physical address. “The housing authority sends you a letter, but if you are living in your car or living on the street, you can’t get it,” Shannon said.
Some homeless advocates are turning to experts in Utah who managed to reduce chronic homelessness by 91 percent. “Next month, we’re bringing out the architects of that plan,” Shannon said. “Everyone who is chronically homeless, they gave them homes.”
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ReplyDeleteRecent LA Homeless News –
Despite 20 yr’s / 2 decade’s (=) NOTHING done ie: ‘a hand up, NOT a hand out” < to heal and recover, misc / etc – “We’re just as human as any of (you - $$$) other’s upon the planet Earth (=) God’s creation, NOT our’s!
Though NOT all of us homeless, misc of (‘The Lowest’ – whom Jesus came unto and still does!), but NOT all of us are suffering mentally, misc else as bad, some of us have suffered, misc due say: bad, illegal, continuingly allowed corrupt code violation’s and retaliatory practice’s of slumlord’s rental business, some of us are single, have vocational character reference’s (heck, do a background check before helping any of us if you wish), NO do drug’s NOR drinking, and are essentially NON-problematic, and choose not to shack up and breed, have various worthy vocational, non-professional skill’s and talent’s, and various background’s, trauma’s, life stories and situation’s;
Needing NOT all to have our brain’s neurotransmitter’s tweaked, misc like some $$$ commodity, misc / etc AND needing NOT just to sit around and hear from (head doctor’s): “And how does that make you feel”. < huh, you REALLY wanna know that answer to that question? Huh, NO you DON’T!
But whether 44,000 – under 100,000 of us fellow human homeless brother’s / sister’s, son’s / daughter’s of Adam / Eve (men, women, children) of (‘The Lowest’ – whom Jesus came unto and still does!);
NOW I hear recently (whenever you manage to read this), that amidst LA, 13,000 newly, additional fellow human homeless brother’s / sister’s, son’s / daughter’s of Adam / Eve (men, women, children) thereof and still, after 20 yr’s / 2 decade’s (=) NOTHING done ie: ‘a hand up, NOT a hand out” < to heal and recover, misc / etc – “We’re just as human as any of (you - $$$) other’s upon the planet Earth (=) God’s creation, NOT our’s! News: https://www.google.com/#q=los+angeles%2C+homeless%2C+13%2C000
Huh, what the hell, is going on with this human species, despite still, continuious, exhibited, evil, unholy, ETC else, i.f.w. (ill free will usage) whether out of oblivient spite, because One can, misc else;
And just NOTHING fazes no one of eternal consequence’s, meanwhile Lucifer / Satan laughs it up – AT US, as we’re the / that beast’s audience, while that beast deems unto God: “Look at them, and their suppose to represent YOU, their suppose to be ‘The Pride and Joy’ of all YOU created”?
Ugh, what the hell HUMAN’S?!? Dam it! News of everywhere and anywhere, ie: military, misc being ‘The Worst’ contaminators of pollution, misc unto this planet, doctor’s too soon (!) giving vaccination’s unto babies fresh outta a female / woman (hell, why not while still in, right)? UGH! Nurses Against Mandatory Vaccines: http://www.namv.org
And if the babies die thereof, WELL, those Doc’s just flip through their phone rolodex and put in / place a call unto ‘Planned Parenthood’, whom then come, pick up the dead babies and like some x-file’s butcher, misc cut around the babies face to get to the brain and then sit around and B/S about just how much $$$$ their gonna make? Huh, what the hell is going on? SIGH, UGH!