AmericaSpeaks TheVoiceOfJoyce California has 30% of America’s homeless population. It’s proven, people are homeless because the rents are too high. The Black, Indigenous and Hispanic people comprise most of the homeless population. They’ve lived in their county all their lives. The homeless are mostly 50 yrs old and older. They’ve suffered trauma by being given 10 day’s notice to renew a lease or one day, for an eviction. Anyone would be traumatized! It’s been found they’d have to work 90 hours a week to afford an apartment. That’s absurd. California needs subsidized housing for the elderly and affordable drug treatment centers. All the myths about the California homeless problem have been debunked. They’re myths. The rents are too darn high!

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/20/california-affordable-housing-crisis-homelessness-study-myths-older-black-residents

Nearly half of all unhoused adults in California are over the age of 50, with Black residents dramatically overrepresented, according to the largest study of the state’s homeless population in decades.

University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) research released on Tuesday also revealed that 90% of the population lost their housing in California, with 75% of them now living in the same county where they were last housed. The study further found that nearly nine out of 10 people reported that the cost of housing was the main barrier to leaving homelessness.

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The research from UCSF’s Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, based on a representative survey of nearly 3,200 unhoused people, contradicts several persistent myths about the population, including that most unhoused people come from out of state to take advantage of services, as well as stereotypes that homeless people are mostly young adults who prefer to live outside and don’t want help.

“People are homeless because their rent is too high. And their options are too few. And they have no cushion,” Dr Margot Kushel, initiative director and lead investigator, told the Associated Press. “And it really makes you wonder how different things would look if we could solve that underlying problem.”

California is home to more than 171,000 people experiencing homelessness, comprising 30% of the homeless population in the US and half of all Americans who are unsheltered and living outside. The crisis has become a public health catastrophe in recent years as an aging population is forced to live in tents, cars and other makeshift shelters, with thousands dying on the streets each year. California is considered the most unaffordable state for housing, where minimum-wage earners would have to work nearly 90 hours a week to afford a one-bedroom apartment.

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