LA County homeless count resumes in January after COVID-19 shut it down in 2021

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority officials and volunteers volition behaviour the yearly 2022 stateless number betwixt Jan. 25-27, the archetypal since 2020 owed to the COVID-19 pandemic that canceled this year’s count.

The effort, known arsenic the point-in-time number oregon 2020 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count, is indispensable to knowing however ample the region’s homelessness situation has become. The number indispensable beryllium conducted by Continuum of Care providers to person national backing done the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

According to the 2020 count, the county’s stateless colonisation accrued by 12.7% implicit the erstwhile year, portion the metropolis of Los Angeles’ stateless colonisation jumped by 14.2%.

In January 2019, Los Angeles County had 58,936 radical experiencing homelessness, but by January 2020 the fig roseate to 66,433. The metropolis of Los Angeles counted 36,165 successful 2019, and 41,290 successful 2020.

The region received an exemption from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and was not required to behaviour a 2021 number owed to the pandemic. The determination was made aft LAHSA determined it was not harmless to stitchery 8,000 volunteers, fixed guidance from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and taking into relationship stay-at-home orders and curfews owed to COVID-19.

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority is seeking volunteers for the 2021 count. People tin registry astatine theycountwillyou.org.