{"id":411667,"date":"2026-07-25T04:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411667\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T04:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:48:10","slug":"in-major-setback-to-mayor-karen-bass-homelessness-in-los-angeles-surges-3-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/411667\/","title":{"rendered":"In major setback to Mayor Karen Bass, HOMELESSNESS in Los Angeles SURGES 3.4%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Distressing news in L.A.&#8217;s ongoing effort to bring the unhoused population inside, as the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority has released the findings of their 2026 Greater L.A. Homeless Count, and following two years of declines, homelessness is once again on the rise. According to the report, there are more than 73,000 unhoused people in the county, up 1.2% from a year earlier. In the City of Los Angels, the number is up 3.4% to 45,194. Mayor Bass reacting to the report, blaming the increase on the rising cost of living and funding cuts. With more on the report, the root causes of homelessness, the solutions, and the politics, Cher Calvin and Courtney Friel are joined by former Congresswoman, and current CEO of Union Station Homeless Services, Katie Hill. July 24, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Distressing news in L.A.&#8217;s ongoing effort to bring the unhoused population inside, as the Los Angeles Homeless Services&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-411667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}