Long Beach Continues Their Ten Year Homelessness Planning

The Institute For The Study of Homelessness and Poverty (ISHP) is highlighting the City of Long Beach’s Ten Year Planning process. (I’m privileged to be on the City’s Working Group for this plan.)

Here is the City of Long Beach’s link to their planning. It provides an abundant list of resources and studies on homelessness.

Here are some interesting facts on homelessness in Long Beach (Thanks to ISHP for these):

· There are 24,000 homeless persons in Long Beach over the course of the year, with some 2,787 at risk of becoming homeless.

· There are 795 homeless families on any given night in Long Beach.

· 24% of Long Beach residents live in poverty (2003).

· Of the 1,198 foster youth under 18 in Long Beach, more than half (58%) will become homeless upon emancipation.

· Almost 1/3, or 32.2% of homeless persons in Long Beach had a physical or mental disability (2004).