What did Disney actually lose from its Florida battle with DeSantis? COVID-19 Homeless Deaths - Homeless Deaths Count The State of California should create a repository of all records for persons who died while homeless, according to Coroners' offices. His Homekey initiative, the successor to Project Roomkey, allows local governments to buy motels to use as temporary or permanent housing for unhoused people. The committee was commissioned by Barnes in January 2022 and includes experts from county agencies, municipal police departments, hospitals, and nonprofits. And some regions have invested more in temporary shelter programs than in permanent housing, making it hard for people to transition out of shelters, especially as the housing market worsens and as more people newly become unhoused, advocates said. Los Angeles County voted overwhelmingly in 2017 to raise its sales tax and generate a projected $3.5 billion over 10 years for homelessness programs. The Guardians analysis counted 18,000 people who died homeless over five years in encampments, on sidewalks or in shelters, including 5,000 deaths in 2020 alone. California Total COVID-19 Homeless Deaths in CA (7 Counties Reporting): 335 Alameda County July 13, 2021: 4 deaths. A home in Newport Beach remains dangerously close to tumbling down a cliffside after the ground underneath gave way on Friday morning. According to the Office of the County. Update: https://ktla.com/news/local-news/ap-some-california-mountain-residents-could-be-snowed-in-a-week/. Although the unhoused population represents about 70,000 of Los Angeles County's more than 9.8 million people, they accounted for . Many may have faced the kind of societal headwinds encountered by 26-year-old Christopher Madson-Yamasaki of Oregon, a bright, aspiring renewable energy technician with a mischievous grin, who had struggled with schizoaffective disorder since his teenage years, his family said. In Los Angeles County, while the homeless population grew by 50 percent from 2015 through 2020, homeless deaths increased by nearly 200 percent. Beyond the direct medical causes, factors such as widespread lack of affordable housing drive increases in homelessness and, ultimately, deaths, experts say. According to the report, the number of accidental deaths that year also surpassed the number of natural deaths. A new Guardian US series reports on a seemingly intractable crisis, and hears from those living on the edge in one of Americas richest states. Officials said the residents were offered housing, but a month later, Toftee is camping down the street and is still waiting for a housing voucher that could subsidize a rental. To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.