Homelessness in the City of Los Angeles’ hot spots increased by an average of 18 percent, despite official numbers showing a decrease of unsheltered persons in those same areas recorded in the 2022 point-in-time count, according to a recent survey by the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit public policy research organization.
The survey, published last week, was created using a team of researchers making up what’s called the Los Angeles Longitudinal Enumeration and Demographic Survey Project “to better inform the development of effective homelessness policy,” the report said.
The survey was conducted over the course of a year from September 2021 to October 2022 and revealed an 18 percent increase in homeless people in certain neighborhoods….