Volunteers fan out across L.A. County to count the region's homeless population.
On a map of Los Angeles County, census tract 124300 is shaped like a trapezoid. It’s the part of North Hollywood where Emma Taylor and two others spent Tuesday night conducting a count of people living on the streets.in the San Gabriel and San Fernando valleys. The three-day event continues Wednesday evening in West Los Angeles, southeast Los Angeles and the South Bay areas.
This year’s count was scheduled for Jan. 25-27, but it was delayed by the winter surge of coronavirus cases fueled by the Omicron variant. The last count conducted in 2020were experiencing homelessness in the county, a 13% increase from the previous year. “We had federal partners who stepped up with real funds, allowing us to take advantage of everything from hotel to motel rooms, to getting state dollars to make sure we can buy abandoned buildings and others,” the mayor said. “To make sure that we put the real emergency sense on this issue that we need to have and treat this like the humanitarian crisis that it is.”
State Assembly member Adrin Azarian , praised volunteers who were devoting the next three days to help count the homeless population. He said the data is crucial to help those in need, many of which have probably fallen through the cracks during the pandemic.Tuesday night’s count began as temperatures dropped into the upper 40s.
The three women said they worked as a team. Taylor was the driver while Schwartz looked around for tents, makeshift dwellings and vehicles occupied by people. Robertson said she logged the information into the app.
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