LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Preliminary knowledge launched solely to Eyewitness Information reveals the variety of homeless individuals in Los Angeles County dropped for the second yr in a row.
The Los Angeles Homeless Providers Authority says the quantity is now at simply over 29,000, which is down from roughly 32,000 final yr.
The group launched preliminary knowledge from the 2025 point-in-time homeless depend performed a couple of month in the past.
LAHSA knowledge – which covers all of L.A. County besides Glendale, Lengthy Seashore and Pasadena – reveals homelessness is down for the second yr in a row. The uncooked knowledge of the 2023 depend discovered over 36,000 homeless in L.A County. Final yr, the quantity dropped to 32,655 and this yr the quantity is all the way down to 29,053.
“The uncooked knowledge that we’re seeing may be very encouraging, and it is exhibiting a 5-10% discount in unsheltered homelessness,” LAHSA CEO Va Lecia Adams Kellum mentioned. “That comes from this sort of alignment. The decision of a state of emergency and to focus unsheltered homelessness, and that’s encouraging and that could be a cause why we need to see metropolis and county proceed to work collectively.”
A current audit criticized the company for a scarcity of information and monetary techniques used to trace homeless packages.
For six straight years, the homeless depend discovered a rise in L.A. County’s homeless inhabitants. Two years in the past, Adams Kellum took over LAHSA and says she’s not stunned by the findings of the audit and believes LAHSA has already made actual progress correcting lots of the points recognized.
“The audits are a glance again. Again even so far as 2017, and whereas they do cowl a sliver, the primary yr of my time at LAHSA, we have been doing our personal inside audits in our first yr, trying on the techniques,” Adams Kellum mentioned. “Altering techniques throughout the finance division and knowledge division and contracts division as a result of we noticed these points and are working to enhance them.”
However some within the county have seen sufficient and need to depart LAHSA.
“This audit is one other reminder of what we already know – the present homelessness providers system is damaged,” L.A. County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath mentioned in a press release. “We can not settle for this dysfunction any longer.
“No extra waste by way of duplicated sources. No extra contracts for providers that do not ship. We’d like accountability and outcomes proper now, which is why I am continuing with the creation of a consolidated county division that may finish this nightmare.”
L.A. Mayor Karen Bass helps the town and county staying in LAHSA.
As for the information acquired by Eyewitness Information, it is essential to notice that it is uncooked knowledge of the individuals truly counted. As the information is analyzed, researchers will produce an estimated variety of whole homeless in L.A. County, which might be considerably increased as extra multiplying components are included.
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