The rising number of homeless persons in the major western. Cities of America has come to light as a result of the extreme weather. Government leaders are under tremendous pressure to address the housing crisis. Which is widespread throughout the nation but is particularly acute in the West.
Extreme summer heat waves have highlighted the growing number of homeless persons. In the American West as well as their vulnerability. Nearly 50,000 people now live in Los Angeles, 9,000 in San Francisco, 5,000 in Phoenix. Arizona, 4,000 in Portland, Oregon, and almost 9,000 in Denver, Colorado. Whose metropolitan region experienced the largest post-pandemic growth of 31% between 2022 and 2023. Despite the millions of dollars in public funds that have been poured into all of these large cities, which also happen to be Democratic, government officials are under pressure to find solutions to a growing problem, and the public is growing impatient. But it’s a complicated problem with a tangled web of factors like dearth of housing, drug abuse, mental illness, and poverty.
A third of all homeless persons reside in California, where the issue is particularly acute. According to Karen Bass, mayor of the megacity, Los Angeles is “really the epicenter,” on June 6. “Over 40,000 people are sleeping in tents here.” The Democrat pledged to cut the number of homeless persons by 17,000 during her first term when she was elected at the end of 2022. The mayor proclaimed a state of emergency on December 12, the day after she was inaugurated in. This administrative action enables municipal authorities to request federal funding. She admitted that her experiences have been inconsistent less than a year later.
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A temporary place to stay
More than 14,300 individuals were taken off the streets thanks to her program of gradually removing tents and rehousing their occupants in less than six months. Additionally, 19 encampments were demolished, and their residents were provided temporary housing. However, the yearly count still reveals a 10% increase in the number of homeless persons, indicating that 46,000 people continue to spend each night sleeping on the streets. And just about 100 of the individuals who benefited from short-term fixes have found long-term accommodation.
