13,000 fall into homelessness every month in L.A. County

Re:13,000 fall into homelessness every month in L.A. County by cgrubb on Thursday August 27, 2015 @07:21PM (#10132765)

Some more numbers:

    US         578,424   318.9M      0.18%
    LA County   44,359    10.02M     0.44%
    LA City     25,686     3.88M     0.66%

https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2014-AHAR-P... http://www.lahsa.org/homelesscount_results

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Re:13,000 fall into homelessness every month in L.A. County by hackuser on Thursday August 27, 2015 @09:15PM (#10133168)

There are only 578,424 homeless in the U.S.? That number seems much too low.

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Re:13,000 fall into homelessness every month in L.A. County by joshuagross on Thursday August 27, 2015 @09:24PM (#10133204)

Why? If California is your norm, keep in mind that California has 20% of the U.S.'s homeless population (California, Texas, and Florida have 58% of the under-18 homeless population). It's really not a universal problem.

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Re:13,000 fall into homelessness every month in L.A. County by omegaham on Thursday August 27, 2015 @09:34PM (#10133262)

Yep. It's hard to be homeless in Michigan.

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Re:13,000 fall into homelessness every month in L.A. County by hackuser on Thursday August 27, 2015 @11:20PM (#10133577)

I can understand the reasoning, but in fact there are many homeless in northern cities. New York, for example, has a large number. Perhaps migration isn't common among the homeless.

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Re:13,000 fall into homelessness every month in L.A. County by cgrubb on Thursday August 27, 2015 @09:51PM (#10133328)

That number is the result of the massive, largely volunteer effort led by HUD to count the homeless that is done every January. There are other numbers, but they tend to involve a lot more guesstimating and a lot less data.

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