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Homelessness up in LA, SF, and OC. What is the state doing about it?
LA’s homeless population grew by 16% in the city last year. That’s despite the fact that two years ago, residents voted overwhelmingly to tax themselves to help build more housing to stem it. The growing crisis is not just an LA problem though.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readLA’s homeless population grew by 16% in the city last year. That’s despite the fact that two years ago, residents voted overwhelmingly to tax themselves to help build more housing to stem it. The growing crisis is not just an LA problem though.
In Orange County, homelessness is up by 40%, partly because officials there changed the way they conducted their annual count. In San Francisco, homelessness is up 17%. This is a bigger problem than any one city or county can fix. So what is the state doing?
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Homelessness is a state-wide crisis- 0:00Homelessness up in LA, SF, and OC. What is the state doing about it?You’re reading this
- 9:40California Democratic Party Chairman Rusty Hicks on unity
- 18:37Nahnatchka Khan on 'Always Be My Maybe,' and how much the industry has changed since 'Fresh Off the Boat'
- 32:15Why TV, film, and commercial sets generate tons of waste
The full episode
1 of 4Homelessness is a state-wide crisis- 0:00Homelessness up in LA, SF, and OC. What is the state doing about it?You’re reading this
- 9:40California Democratic Party Chairman Rusty Hicks on unity
- 18:37Nahnatchka Khan on 'Always Be My Maybe,' and how much the industry has changed since 'Fresh Off the Boat'
- 32:15Why TV, film, and commercial sets generate tons of waste