Homelessness is reaching an emergency level in Los Angeles | By Mark Ridley-Thomas for CNNOpinion
Mark Ridley-Thomas is a Los Angeles County Supervisor, principal author of Measure H, Los Angeles County's Homeless Services and Prevention Act of 2017, and was recently appointed co-chair by Gov. Gavin Newsom to the Statewide Task Force on Homelessness and Supportive Housing. The views expressed in this commentary belong to the author. View more opinion at CNN.
Los Angeles is enduring a crisis of homelessness. We are in the eye of an economic storm -- fighting the forces of high rents, stagnant wages, and a deficit of a half million units of affordable housing -- that is pushing thousands from housed to homeless. And its cost, the moral expense to us as a community and region, deserves a statewide declaration of a State of Emergency.
This year's count revealed that at any given point in time, there are more than 58,900 Angeleños experiencing homelessness; many are families sleeping in places not meant for human habitation. It is a frightening illustration of the challenges we face that many from afar may not easily comprehend -- for every 133 people our service providers house every day, 150 more people become newly homeless.
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