Chronic Homelessness – Los Angeles, CA

L.A. County to focus funds on chronically homeless, By Alexandra Zavis, August 15, 2012, Los Angeles Times: “Los Angeles County’s most entrenched street dwellers make up just a quarter of its roughly 51,000 homeless people. But studies have found they account for a disproportionate share of public spending, including on hospital emergency rooms and jails. On Thursday, public officials and private donors will announce that they are spending $105 million to move more than a thousand of the most chronic cases into permanent housing, part of a sweeping change in the way the county deals with homelessness…”