Persons Experiencing Homelessness

According to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's definition, homelessness includes individuals and families who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence. A homeless count provides a "snapshot in time" to quantify the size of the homeless population at a specific point during the year. Regardless of how successful outreach efforts are, an undercount of people experiencing homelessness is possible. Counts includes persons experiencing unsheltered and sheltered homelessness. Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count occurred in the nights of February 22, 23 and 24, 2022. Glendale's count occurred in the morning and evening of February 25, 2022. Long Beach's count occurred in the early morning of February 24, 2022. Pasadena's count occurred in the evening of February 22, 2022 and morning of February 23, 2022. Data not available for Los Angeles City neighborhoods and unincorporated Los Angeles County; LAHSA does not recommend aggregating census tract-level data to calculate numbers for other geographic levels. Housing affordability is a major concern for many Los Angeles County residents. Housing burden can increase the risk for homelessness. Individuals experiencing homelessness experience disproportionately higher rates of certain health conditions, such as tuberculosis, HIV infection, alcohol and drug abuse, and mental illness. Barriers to accessing care and limited access to resources contribute greatly to these observed disparities. For more information about the Community Health Profiles Data Initiative, please see the initiative homepage.根据美国住房与城市发展部（U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development）的定义，无家可归者指的是缺乏固定、常规且适宜的夜间居住场所的个人与家庭。无家可归者普查可提供一份“时间快照”，用于量化某一特定时点的无家可归人口规模。无论外展服务成效如何，无家可归者普查均存在漏统的可能性。本次普查涵盖无庇护所（unsheltered）与有庇护所（sheltered）两类无家可归人群。大洛杉矶无家可归者普查于2022年2月22日、23日及24日晚间开展；格伦代尔市普查于2022年2月25日的晨间与晚间进行；长滩市普查于2022年2月24日凌晨开展；帕萨迪纳市普查于2022年2月22日晚间及2月23日晨间进行。洛杉矶市街区及洛杉矶县未合并区域暂无相关数据；洛杉矶无家可归者服务管理局（LAHSA）不建议通过汇总普查街区级数据来计算其他地理区域的无家可归人口数量。住房可负担性是洛杉矶县众多居民的核心关切之一。住房负担过重会提升陷入无家可归境地的风险。无家可归人群的特定健康问题患病率显著偏高，例如结核病、人类免疫缺陷病毒（HIV）感染、酒精与药物滥用及精神疾病。医疗服务获取障碍与资源渠道有限，是造成这类已观测到的健康差异的主要诱因。如需了解社区健康概况数据倡议（Community Health Profiles Data Initiative）的更多详情，请访问该倡议的官方主页。