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    Homelessness continues to soar, jumping 9% in LA County, 10% in the city

    by Doug Smith, Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times Jun 29, 2023 5 minutes
    Nathaniel Prenters, 44, gathers his belongings before clean-up by Los Angeles City sanitation of an encampment along 200 block of S. Venice Blvd., in Los Angeles.

    Homelessness continued to rise dramatically, increasing by 9% in Los Angeles County and 10% in the city of Los Angeles last year, in a stark illustration of the challenges faced by officials trying to reduce the number of people living on the streets.

    Efforts to house people, which include hundreds of millions of dollars spent on shelter, permanent housing and outreach, have failed to stem the growth of street encampments, as reflected in the annual point-in-time count released Thursday by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.

    The count, conducted by thousands of volunteers during a three-day period in January, projected that 75,518 people were living in interim housing or a tent, car, van, RV, tent or makeshift shelter in Los Angeles County, compared with 69,144 the previous year.

    Since the 2015 count, homelessness has increased by 70% in the county and 80% in the city.

    "The results are definitely disappointing with all

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