Tent Cities in Los Angeles
 

The Numbers

• On any given day, there are an estimated
  
   
  68,608 homeless people throughout the Los Angeles CoC.
• Approximately 15% of these, or 10,100 are children under the age of 18.
• An additional 5,094 homeless people counted in the cities of Pasadena, Glendale, and Long Beach (distinct separate Continuums in Los Angeles County) increase the estimated homeless population for the entire County of Los Angeles at a point in time to 73,702.

Annualized Numbers

• Based on the Department of Housing and Urban Development's protocols, an estimated 141,737 homeless people in the Los Angeles CoC experience homelessness sometime during the year. This annual estimate of homelessness represents approximately 1.5% of Los Angeles CoC's total population.

Regional Numbers

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  The City of Los Angeles has an estimated 40,144 homeless individuals on any given night.
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  Skid Row reported the greatest concentration of homeless persons at 5,131.
• The San Gabriel Valley and Metro Los Angeles areas experienced an increase in the number of homeless from the prior count, while the remaining 6 Service Planning Areas (SPAs) saw decreases in their homeless populations.
• Following are the homeless estimates for each SPA:

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http://www.lahsa.org/docs/homelesscount/2007/LAHSA.pdf

and hundreds of thousands of free hotel rooms

wow, you have the extremely rich and the extremely poor living side by side.

when i first read the title of this thread i thought it was about communes in LA.

L.A. is realy fucked up. I don't go there often, it bores me.

Arnold Schwarzenegger needs to get his cock out of his mouth.

Well, he is already cutting jobs from teachers.

in cities like st. petersburg and sarasota they have banned the tents for the homeless. in clearwater they are making it a law that any persons can't ask for change or anything. they can sit there with a sign or something but they can't go up and ask people. i think it's kind of fucked.

It is, especially for some people that actually need change for an emergency.

They should just do what the homeless in Brazil do. Get a huge group together and overnight storm a large farm and build houses. When the farmer wakes up, he no longer owns a farm, but he's got one heck of a new city in his back yard.

its not the government's fault, it is the people. since everyone in los angeles just accepts the situation, it continues, after all, the government gets its money from us.

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Im just going to say that if I ever became homeless, I would never live in a fucking city. The country would be where its at. Live in a tree. Cheaper food. friendlier people. etc.

er, where did you pull that from?

The country? You mean out with the rabid raccoons and skunks? The shotgun toting rednecks and hick meth addicts? Uh, no--give me the city any old day.

we dont have rabies or raccoons or skunks or shotguns. We have some rednecks and meth addicts... but mostly the meth is too expensive for country folk.. and rednecks tend to congregate more toward north and central aust. There is plenty of acres.

Okay, well, that's different. I can tell you that when I start getting into territory here that's too rural, a little alarm goes off in my head. It's to the tune of the dueling banjos song from Deliverance.