Dec 12, 2020 06:45 AM
Highest figure comes from here, dated late in 2019(PDF): "Almost half (47 percent) of all unsheltered homeless people in the United States are found in California, about four times as high as their share of the overall United States population."
The most recent national tally [from earlier in same year 2019] was 567,715 individuals across the whole country that have experienced homelessness. (Inferences are that it's far greater than the usual half-a-million mark.) Thus, the less than one-third percentage if going by the count for California on the map below.
https://www.usich.gov/homelessness-statistics/ca/
INTRO: As of January 2019, California had an estimated 151,278 experiencing homelessness on any given day, as reported by Continuums of Care to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Of that Total, 7,044 were family households, 10,980 were Veterans, 11,993 were unaccompanied young adults (aged 18-24), and 41,557 were individuals experiencing chronic homelessness.
Public school data reported to the U.S. Department of Education during the 2017-2018 school year shows that an estimated 263,058 public school students experienced homelessness over the course of the year. Of that total, 10,407 students were unsheltered, 17,299 were in shelters, 13,713 were inhotels/motels, and 221,639 were doubled up.
Use our map to compare California homeless statistics with other states and filter statistics by the data source. You can also find contact information for each state under the map... (MORE - map)
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Cyncial Sindee: Small businesses wiped out by excessive lockdowns, hemorrhaging larger companies to other states, and clearly decades of promises to end social ills (like poverty) with the aid of the highest state income tax in the country are bearing fruit.
Going by the map, Texas (pop. 29 million) has circa one-sixth the number of homeless as California (pop. 40 million). Housing and cost of living are cheaper in Texas. Texas has no state income tax.
- - - from last month, more of the administration's adept feats of guardianship - - -
California inmates part of $1B unemployment fraud schemes, prosecutors say
https://www.politico.com/states/californ...ay-9424792
EXCERPTS: Sophisticated crime rings involving inmates in California's jails and prisons may have stolen upwards of $1 billion in pandemic unemployment aid, four district attorneys and a federal prosecutor announced Tuesday.
[...] Schubert called the scale of the scheme "honestly staggering" and that it could amount to "the biggest fraud of taxpayer dollars in California history." She and her law enforcement colleagues called on state officials — including Gov. Gavin Newsom — to ensure that the identities of claimants are routinely cross-checked against those who are incarcerated and halt those payments.
"It’s not just about the money that’s been stolen," Schubert said. "It’s about the fact that we need to turn off the spigot, which means that we should not continue to pay these convicted felons who are in prison. ... We have asked and implored the governor to get involved himself to turn the spigot off."
[...] Some of the stolen money is flowing out of the state and even the country, they said. "The practical reality," said El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson, "is the vast majority of this money will never be repaid."
[...] Federal officials warned state workforce agencies this fall that cybercriminals in the U.S. and abroad — using troves of personal information mined from massive data breaches — may have pocketed $8 billion in pandemic aid...
And last month a rapper living in the Hollywood Hills with the stage name of Nuke Bizzle was arrested on federal fraud charges after posting a music video entitled "EDD" that appeared to boast about defrauding the department. He is accused of applying for more than $1.2 million in benefits using stolen identities.
[...] A "strike team" appointed by Newsom this year found that nearly all of the claimants flagged for further verification were legitimate, while fraudsters sailed through the automated system. EDD Director Sharon Hilliard, facing intensifying criticism from state lawmakers over the agency's troubles, is retiring at year's end. (MORE - details)
The most recent national tally [from earlier in same year 2019] was 567,715 individuals across the whole country that have experienced homelessness. (Inferences are that it's far greater than the usual half-a-million mark.) Thus, the less than one-third percentage if going by the count for California on the map below.
https://www.usich.gov/homelessness-statistics/ca/
INTRO: As of January 2019, California had an estimated 151,278 experiencing homelessness on any given day, as reported by Continuums of Care to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Of that Total, 7,044 were family households, 10,980 were Veterans, 11,993 were unaccompanied young adults (aged 18-24), and 41,557 were individuals experiencing chronic homelessness.
Public school data reported to the U.S. Department of Education during the 2017-2018 school year shows that an estimated 263,058 public school students experienced homelessness over the course of the year. Of that total, 10,407 students were unsheltered, 17,299 were in shelters, 13,713 were inhotels/motels, and 221,639 were doubled up.
Use our map to compare California homeless statistics with other states and filter statistics by the data source. You can also find contact information for each state under the map... (MORE - map)
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Cyncial Sindee: Small businesses wiped out by excessive lockdowns, hemorrhaging larger companies to other states, and clearly decades of promises to end social ills (like poverty) with the aid of the highest state income tax in the country are bearing fruit.
Going by the map, Texas (pop. 29 million) has circa one-sixth the number of homeless as California (pop. 40 million). Housing and cost of living are cheaper in Texas. Texas has no state income tax.
- - - from last month, more of the administration's adept feats of guardianship - - -
California inmates part of $1B unemployment fraud schemes, prosecutors say
https://www.politico.com/states/californ...ay-9424792
EXCERPTS: Sophisticated crime rings involving inmates in California's jails and prisons may have stolen upwards of $1 billion in pandemic unemployment aid, four district attorneys and a federal prosecutor announced Tuesday.
[...] Schubert called the scale of the scheme "honestly staggering" and that it could amount to "the biggest fraud of taxpayer dollars in California history." She and her law enforcement colleagues called on state officials — including Gov. Gavin Newsom — to ensure that the identities of claimants are routinely cross-checked against those who are incarcerated and halt those payments.
"It’s not just about the money that’s been stolen," Schubert said. "It’s about the fact that we need to turn off the spigot, which means that we should not continue to pay these convicted felons who are in prison. ... We have asked and implored the governor to get involved himself to turn the spigot off."
[...] Some of the stolen money is flowing out of the state and even the country, they said. "The practical reality," said El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson, "is the vast majority of this money will never be repaid."
[...] Federal officials warned state workforce agencies this fall that cybercriminals in the U.S. and abroad — using troves of personal information mined from massive data breaches — may have pocketed $8 billion in pandemic aid...
And last month a rapper living in the Hollywood Hills with the stage name of Nuke Bizzle was arrested on federal fraud charges after posting a music video entitled "EDD" that appeared to boast about defrauding the department. He is accused of applying for more than $1.2 million in benefits using stolen identities.
[...] A "strike team" appointed by Newsom this year found that nearly all of the claimants flagged for further verification were legitimate, while fraudsters sailed through the automated system. EDD Director Sharon Hilliard, facing intensifying criticism from state lawmakers over the agency's troubles, is retiring at year's end. (MORE - details)