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Going to Work on Homelessness - 0 views

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Homelessness Los Angeles

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  • We learned that New York had an effective approach to locating and housing chronic homeless folks, so we invited the organization that built that program to enlighten us.
  • : In greater Los Angeles, we spend at least $875 million on homelessness every year. Our chronically homeless constitute only 25 percent of our homeless population yet, for good reasons, they consume up to 74 percent of the total we spend.
  • We can end chronic and veteran homelessness in greater Los Angeles in five years and spend less than we do now. We project a net cost avoidance of at least 40 percent over five years when our recommendations are implemented.
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  • Chronically homeless individuals rely on ultra-expensive emergency room health care, consume significant mental health resources because they are often mentally disabled or addicted or both, and rely heavily on our hodgepodge network of case management, nongovernment agencies and non-profits.
  • Source CitationFraser, Renee White, and Jerry Neuman. "Getting to work on homelessness: an L.A. task force applies business principles and draws up an action plan to tackle a chronic civil problem." Los Angeles Business Journal 32.46 (2010): 42. General Reference Center Gold. Web. 24 Feb. 2011.Document URLhttp://find.galegroup.com/gtx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC-Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T003&prodId=GRGM&docId=A248829517&source=gale&srcprod=GRGM&userGroupName=lom_accessmich&version=1.0
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Homeless Los Angeles Homelessness

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  • HHS officially classifies a person as poor in 48 states (Alaska and Hawaii have different standards) if he or she earns less than $10,830 per year. It classifies a family of four as poor if it takes in less than $22,050 per year and a family of eight as poor if the annual income is less than $37,010. Using those figures, the Census Bureau says that slightly more than 39.8 million Americans, or 13.2 percent of the U.S. population, lived below the "poverty line" in 2008.
  • According to the NAS, the traditional way of measuring poverty, set up in 1955, places too much emphasis on the cost of food. Today, the definition of poverty should put more emphasis on the costs of health care, transportation, housing, and other needs.
  • * 18.7 percent of Americans ages 65 and older--or 7.1 million people--live in poverty. * 14.5 percent of adults ages 18 to 64--27 million people-are below the poverty line. * 17.9 percent of Americans ages 17 and younger--15.3 million-live in poverty.
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  • The number of poor people varies across ethnic and racial groups. The NAS poverty rate for non-Hispanic whites in 2008 was 11 percent; Asian Americans made up 17 percent; African Americans, 24.7 percent; and Hispanic Americans, 29 percent
  • "Poor in America: U.S. poverty rate rises." Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication 16 Nov. 2009: 4+. General Reference Center Gold. Web. 22 Feb. 2011.Document URLhttp://find.galegroup.com/gtx/infomark.do?&contentSet=IAC-Documents&type=retrieve&tabID=T003&prodId=GRGM&docId=A212766777&source=gale&srcprod=GRGM&userGroupName=lom_accessmich&version=1.0
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Homeless and housed families in Los Angeles: - 0 views

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  • Both homeless and housed poor mothers averaged 29 years old and were accompanied by two or three children. Three-fourths of both the homeless and housed families had income below the poverty level, and both groups expended almost two-thirds of their income on housing. Mothers in homeless families more commonly reported spousal abuse (35 vs 16 percent), child abuse (28 vs 10 percent), drug use (43 vs. 30 percent), or mental health problems (14 vs 6 percent) and weaker support networks. Homeless mothers more commonly came from homes where their parents abused drugs or alcohol (49 vs 34 percent) or more commonly lived outside the home or in foster care (35 vs 25 percent).
  • Burdens of increasing housing costs and family dysfunction among housed poor families place many at risk for homelessness.
  • Caleb Bol on 18 Feb 11
     
    Who- The homeless in Los Angeles consist of people that are't able to pay for their housing.  Most of them are single mothers with two or three kids.  They are also people that have at some point been affected by drugs or abuse. What- Homeless in Los Angeles is mainly made up of people that have been affected by drugs or abuse.  They aren't able to pay because of housing costs. Where- This homelessness is happening in Los Angeles but also everywhere else in the world. When-This article doesn't address the issue of when Why- These people are homeless because they are affected by drugs and abuse, increasing house costs, and because their families aren't able to function very well
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2007 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count - 0 views

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shared by Caleb Bol on 10 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • On any given day, there are an estimated 68,608 homeless people throughout the Los Angeles CoC. Approximately 15% of these, or 10,100 are children under the age of 18.
  • Caleb Bol on 10 Feb 11
     
    2007 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count.  This is just a test
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