The US Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) latest report regarding homelessness in the country revealed that Seattle/King County’s homeless population outpaced San Francisco’s, putting the Emerald City and surrounding area in the top 3 cities in the country just behind Los Angeles and New York.
Homelessness in the country grew 2 percent overall in 2020 and increased for the fourth consecutive year. According to the report, over 580,000 people experienced homelessness in on a single night, 61 percent were staying in emergency shelters or transitional housing. The others were sleeping on the street, in abandoned buildings or other locations.
The highest homeless populations in were New York City placing first with 77,943. Los Angeles City and County had the second highest amount of homeless people at 63,706 while rounding out the top three was Seattle/King County with a homeless population of 11,751 in 2020.
California accounted for more than half of all homeless people in the entire country with 51 percent or 113,660. Accordingly, one out of every four people experiencing homelessness was in New York City or Los Angeles.
Tuesday, a federal judge in California ordered Los Angeles city and county to offer housing to its Skid Row homeless population by October 18. LA is also required to offer housing to unaccompanied women and children on Skid Row by July 19, and to unaccompanied families by Aug. 18.
"There can be no defense to the indefensible. For all the declarations of success that we are fed, citizens themselves see the heartbreaking misery of the homeless and the degradation of their City and County. Los Angeles has lost its parks, beaches, schools, sidewalks, and highway systems due to the inaction of City and County officials who have left our homeless citizens with no other place to turn."
On Monday, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti unveiled a plan to spend $1 billion to address homelessness in the city. Carter ordered an audit of "all funding intended to address the city’s homeless crisis and that the money be placed in escrow forthwith, with funding streams accounted for and reported to the court within seven days."
Meanwhile, Seattle/King County recently appointed a communist activist who has called for abolishing the police and an overthrow of capitalism, the job to create and oversee the new Regional Homeless Authority (RHA) for the area. However, no other city in King County aside from Seattle has yet to sign onto the RHA.
The situation is so bad in Seattle that earlier this month, Students who returned to in person learning at Seattle Public Schools for the first time in over a year found homeless encampments waiting for them on the grounds of two of the district’s campuses. This, only two short years after state officials debated legislation prohibiting homeless encampments from being allowed to be established within 1,000 feet from a school.
After a national media firestorm, one of the encampments was removed by the city of Seattle, while the other remains because activists on the Seattle School board refused to remove it.
Encampments in the area have grown exponentially since the onset of the coronavirus as Seattle has stringently adhered to CDC recommendations of homeless encampments remaining in place to ride out the pandemic.
King County has leased multiple hotels to be used as shelters with disastrous results.
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