LA Times: Homelessness jumps 12% in L.A. County and 16% in the city; officials ‘stunned’
In a setback for efforts to fight homelessness, the number of people on the streets and in shelters rose in 2019. Officials blame a lack of affordable housing.
Los Angeles Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas said, “At this point of unprecedented wealth in the county of Los Angeles, we are equally confronted with unprecedented poverty manifesting itself in the form of homelessness.”