Number of PEH who died by accident more than doubled. Number of PEH who died by homicide more than doubled. Number of Black PEH who died more than doubled. Number of Hispanic/Latin(o)(a)(x) PEH who died more than doubled. California Assembly Bill 271 Homeless Death Review Committees, if approved during the 2023 legislative session would, authorize…

Read More

2022 Homeless Count Reveals a Goal of Ending Unsheltered Homelessness Among Veterans is Within Reach for Many of California’s 44 Continuums of Care Northern California, Central California, and Southern California CoCs Collectively Counted Less Veterans as Unsheltered in their Regions during their 2022 Homeless Count when Compared to their 2020 Count as Noted in the…

Read More

Bills Introduced in January Reveal the Kind of Actions That Legislators Want to Become Law During the 2023 Legislative Session to Help Mitigate the Statewide Homelessness Crisis Legislation introduced in January includes: AB 271 Homeless death review committees AB 86 Homelessness: lead entity AB 284 Department of Housing and Community Development: annual report: Homeless Housing,…

Read More

A Homeless Count Comparison of Each Subpopulation for the Entire State, Northern California, Central California, and Southern California is Detailed Below HUD recently released the 2022 homeless count data Click here for a pdf copy of this report Chart 1 shows the following findings for the entire State of California The number of adults and…

Read More

HUD recently released the 2022 homeless count data Click here to see the regional map A comparison by region reveals the following, which is detailed in Tables 1 – 3 below: Northern California: The number of persons counted in 2020 was 52,214 and 59,614 in 2022 representing an increase of 7,440 persons or 14.2%; Southern…

Read More

Continuums of Care and HMIS Software Vendors Need to Keep Pace with Expanding HMIS Requirements to Guide Data-Driven Statewide Policy Decisions There was a significant shift in HMIS software vendors among California’s Continuums of Care (CoCs) during the six-year period of 2016 through 2022, as evident in the following chart. *In 2016, Bowman Systems was…

Read More