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Homeless population in Los Angeles

In the whole of the United States of America , Los Angeles is the county that records the highest number of homeless people . Although the other counties have homeless people Los Angeles has the highest percentage of homeless people and hence has quite a number of vulnerable people . These homeless people range from all ages some from as young as less than five years of age to others who are over forty years old . In the period

of one year , Los Angeles records having approximately 254 ,000 homeless people . When the statistics are looked at per night , they show that 82 ,000 people are homeless every night . This does not mean that these people will have spent a whole year homeless but when a survey is done on a nightly basis the above result is obtained among the youth . It has been identified that the number of unaccompanied youths ranges from 4 ,800 to 10 ,000 ( HYPERLINK "http /www .laalmanac .com http /www .laalmanac .com

The African Americans form the majority of the homeless group (Flaming D . et al 204 . They make more than 50 percent of the homeless people . It has also been established that American non citizens make up quite a substantial part of the homeless . 14 to18 percent of the homeless are not American citizens but are people who came looking for a better life but instead ended up on the streets with no hope of getting a house Women are also a very vulnerable group when it comes to becoming homeless . The majority of the homeless are above 40 years of age but it seems that women join the homeless group at an earlier age than men Young mothers as young as 18 to 25 years are more likely to become homeless especially if they lack a supportive family who do not want the child and they are forced to move out . This happens when the child is born out of wedlock

Children who have been left in foster care are also more likely to become homeless than those in stable families . The shifting from one foster home to a group home to yet another foster home destabilizes them emotionally . This will then lead to their running away from the homes they are put in and go to the streets where they can make friends who now become their family . 27 percent of the children in foster homes end up running away to the streets . This is because around 25 percent of these children are either physically or sexually abused by the adults in the foster homes (http :www .laalmanac .com . It has been established that half of foster youth will end up as homeless and of those homeless youngsters , more than half of them will end up in the legal system

About 20 percent of the homeless are veterans and about 17 percent of these veterans were actively involved in the military at one...

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