Showing posts with label Los Angeles City Council. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Los Angeles City Council. Show all posts

Thursday, June 13, 2019

U.S. News: The Homeless Are Dying in Record Numbers on the Streets of Los Angeles. More than 918 died in 2018.

By Anna Gorman and Harriet Blair Rowan, By Kaiser Health News, Contributor April 23, 2019

A record number of homeless people — 918 last year alone — are dying across Los Angeles County, on bus benches, hillsides, railroad tracks and sidewalks.

Deaths have jumped 76% in the past five years, outpacing the growth of the homeless population, according to a Kaiser Health News analysis of the coroner's data.


Health officials and experts have not pinpointed a single cause for the sharp increase in deaths, but they say rising substance abuse may be a major reason. The surge also reflects growth in the number of people who are chronically homeless and those who don't typically use shelters, which means more people are living longer on the streets with serious physical and behavioral health issues, they say.

ABC 7: Sun Valley business owners overwhelmed by L.A.'s homeless crisis! 'Employees AFRAID to show up for work!'



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Monday, June 10, 2019

FPI: L.A. Homelessness Parallels L.A. Riots, Northridge Earthquake, #RecallGarcetti



Alex asks L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti to either step down or face a recall over his weak leadership on L.A.'s homeless crisis.  talks about what it is like to live and work in Downtown Los Angeles surrounded by homelessness. About how the City of Los Angeles is no longer a safe or healthy place to live. She blames L.A.'s Mayor Eric Garcetti for the problem of chronic homelessness, calling out his weak leadership on the crisis. She also exposes how City Controller Ron Galperin pointed out finding of his audit of Proposition HHH, not one unit was built with the $1.2 billion in bond money. Prop. HHH is a 10-year program approved by voters to build 10,000 apartments units for the homeless of Los Angeles.

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