LA’s Declining Homelessness Numbers: Real or Illusory?
Earlier this year, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass issued a statement titled “Lasting Change: Annual Homelessness Count Down Two Years in a Row for the First Time Ever in Los Angeles.” LA officials crowed about the numbers, but the count leaves room for reasonable doubt. The annual “point-in-time” (PIT) count conducted in February (released in July) reported that homelessness […]