LA Homelessness Data (it's not drugs)
Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:11 am
Here are the raw numbers for 2015 - 2016:
https://www.lahsa.org/dashboards?id=18- ... ic-summary
The numbers for 2017:
https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=1353 ... esults.pdf
For base reference, there were 41,174 homeless in 2015, 43,854 in 2016, and 57794 in 2016. Pretty big jump in 2017 according to this data.
Let's look at Markk's favorite: drugs.
"substance abuse" (unsheltered) -- those out in the open for Markk to see: 8,034 in 2015; 8978 in 2016; and 8380 in 2017. So there was a 31% increase in homelessness from 2016 to 2017 and substance abuse down by 7%.
Markk's next favorite: foster drop-outs at 18
The 18-24 increase was the most dramatic percentage increase in an age class, broadly consistent -- meaning we can't directly rule it out like drug use -- with the numbers, but even if 18-19 year olds accounted for over half of this group and we assume they are all fosters, in raw numbers compared to the total increase in homeless, it's less than 10% of the newly homeless population.
Mental illness is about the same from previous years.
Perusing the articles on the first 10 pages of "causes of Homelessness in LA", the dramatic increases are universally considered to be thanks to housing costs/housing shortage. The only factor mentioned in the first 10 pages of articles that agrees with Mark, is one (speculative) reference to goals to release more prisoners. Yep, the increase is mostly about housing costs.
Here's an interesting one:
http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/long- ... opulation/
Long Beach apparently is two years ahead of the game with doubling their housing available and experiments with homeless liaisons (what EA talks about extensively that Mark thinks can't work) and so while the rest of LA has increased 30% + in the last two years, Long Beach has reduced it's problem by 21%.
https://www.lahsa.org/dashboards?id=18- ... ic-summary
The numbers for 2017:
https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=1353 ... esults.pdf
For base reference, there were 41,174 homeless in 2015, 43,854 in 2016, and 57794 in 2016. Pretty big jump in 2017 according to this data.
Let's look at Markk's favorite: drugs.
"substance abuse" (unsheltered) -- those out in the open for Markk to see: 8,034 in 2015; 8978 in 2016; and 8380 in 2017. So there was a 31% increase in homelessness from 2016 to 2017 and substance abuse down by 7%.
Markk's next favorite: foster drop-outs at 18
The 18-24 increase was the most dramatic percentage increase in an age class, broadly consistent -- meaning we can't directly rule it out like drug use -- with the numbers, but even if 18-19 year olds accounted for over half of this group and we assume they are all fosters, in raw numbers compared to the total increase in homeless, it's less than 10% of the newly homeless population.
Mental illness is about the same from previous years.
Perusing the articles on the first 10 pages of "causes of Homelessness in LA", the dramatic increases are universally considered to be thanks to housing costs/housing shortage. The only factor mentioned in the first 10 pages of articles that agrees with Mark, is one (speculative) reference to goals to release more prisoners. Yep, the increase is mostly about housing costs.
Here's an interesting one:
http://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/long- ... opulation/
Long Beach apparently is two years ahead of the game with doubling their housing available and experiments with homeless liaisons (what EA talks about extensively that Mark thinks can't work) and so while the rest of LA has increased 30% + in the last two years, Long Beach has reduced it's problem by 21%.