While local officials have invested heavily in placing the homeless in government-sponsored housing, homelessness rose 16 percent in the city of Los Angeles and 12 percent in the Los Angeles County in 2019, according to the results of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) annual homeless count.
In a statement to The Epoch Times, LAHSA spokesman Sean Wright said, “Our housing and economic crisis pushes people into homelessness faster than our system can help them out.”
