Homelessness in Los Angeles county declines for second straight year | Los Angeles
Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (Lahsa) said on Monday that the homelessness in Los Angeles County fell by 4% in 2025.
In 2023, when the Southern California metropolitan area was counted as 75,518 people living in homelessness, he had previously reported the population of the not highest. This number fell slightly to 75,312 people in 2024.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, Lahsa’nın annual score counts at a press conference explaining the results, “the first date of our city for the first time in the house fell for two years,” he said.
The estimation is based on a number of three days in February 2025 and includes people living on the streets and people in shelters. For the first time in its history, the time count was completely digitally entered, a change that the agency hopes that the future will increase speed and accuracy in future numbers.
Va Lecia Adams Kellum, CEO of Lahsa, said, “Reducing homelessness is now a trend in the city and the district.”
Irregular homelessness in the city of Los Angeles fell 7.9% from 2024 for a decrease of 17.5% since 2024. In Los Angeles, about two -thirds of people who have homelessness are not preserved. The number of people in the shelter increased by 4.7%. Lahsa made a 22% decrease in chronic homelessness, and about 6,000 less chronic homeless people lived on the street.
As in previous years, most people who live in Los Angeles continue to be overwhelming color people, especially black and Latin people.
Approximately one -third of all unread people in the United States live in California. Experts say that the destructive crisis is largely due to lack of affordable housing in one of the most expensive states in the country.
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s congratulations on the way to the press conference stating that Bass said, “Housing was built until the construction of people on the street chose to reject the status quo,” he said.
Head declared an emergency situation At a press conference on Monday, the leaders of BAS and other Los Angeles region provided financing for the success of the city’s camp decisions, intermediate and permanent housing.
Adams Kellum, “We have made a real progress to end homelessness, and now we can not allow this momentum to reduce,” he said.
Nevertheless, California, after the 2024 US Supreme Court’s decision, decided that cities could punish unusable people to sleep outside, and used more and more aggressive tactics to break down homeless camps – even if there are no current shelter areas.
In February, Newsom warned cities and districts that they could lose hundreds of millions of dollars if they do not make progress in cleaning and fighting camps and fighting homelessness. And in May, he increased these warnings and called for camps to prohibit camps effectively without “delay”.
At the beginning of this month, California voted to overhaul the turning point environmental protection rules to allow the construction of more housing to fight the state’s homelessness crisis.
Katy Yaroslavsky, a member of the Los Angeles Municipal Assembly, said, “Nobody should see these results and think that our business is finished”. “We are still in a crisis, but for a long time we see that the tide has started to return. For the last few years, we have learned what to have to solve camps and host people for good.”
Lahsa has started to examine in recent months with Rand Corporation remarkable At the beginning of this month, the agency’s in -time number appears less than its own number. In April, the LA District Audit Board went so far enough to end its financing for the common district city initiative. support your support For homelessness services to a new district agency.
Adams Kellum said this and other latest budget cuts may mean that this is the last number of homeless ones for the agency.
