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Gov. Gavin Newsom of California threatened to redirect funding from counties that fail to reduce homelessness in their communities during a visit to Pacoima following his controversial order for state agencies to remove encampments.
a 2021 study from the University of Chicago estimates that 53% of people living in homeless shelters and 40% of unsheltered people were employed, either full or part-time, in the year that people were observed homeless between 2011 – 2018.
I don’t know about L.A. in specific, but-
https://endhomelessness.org/blog/employed-and-experiencing-homelessness-what-the-numbers-show/
And that was all pre-COVID and housing bubble, obviously.
There are over 650,000 homeless in America now. So even if it’s only 40% of those…
650k is the visible homeless, my understanding there is another million of people who are not visible homeless.