Jan 10, 2025

California’s wildfires will worsen LA’s affordable housing crisis

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Thousands of structures have burned in a region where the affordable housing crisis is already acute. What does this mean for the area's existing unhoused population?

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Los Angeles Wildfires

As thousands flee LA fires, disaster poses unique challenges for the unhoused

by Kimberly Adams

Jan 10, 2025

There are roughly 75,000 people in Los Angeles experiencing homelessness, and those in the path of the fires face additional risks.

Evacuation shelters are filling with newly displaced people. Those shelters were already strained trying to provide for the area's unhoused populations.

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