Los Angeles-SANA
A new census conducted by the local agency to help the homeless "Lhasa" before the Corona virus crisis showed that the number of homeless people increased dramatically within a year in Los Angeles, California, USA.
And Lhasa counted, according to Agence France-Presse reported today, 66,433 homeless, an increase of 13 percent compared to the previous year, explaining that the increase in the number of homeless people in Los Angeles is due to the shortage of low-cost housing in a city where very high rents are recorded.
Heidi Marston, director of the Lhasa Agency, called for an in-depth treatment of the crisis, which has affected particularly long-neglected black minorities.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Gracity pointed out that the new figures reflect the aggravation of the crisis despite efforts to find new housing for people.
Despite millions of dollars of public funds invested in an attempt to solve the problem, California, one of the wealthiest states in the United States, has the largest number of homeless people estimated at 150,000, as the problem emerged more clearly in the recent period with the Corona epidemic that isolated people in their homes while the homeless remained on the sidewalks.