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October 30, 2020 The Desert Sun

Project Roomkey funding ends soon. Over 11,000 Californians could become homeless, again

The program sheltered thousands during the pandemic, but money — and time — is running out. Only 5% of clients have found a permanent home.

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October 21, 2020 The Los Angeles Times

California’s homeless students could fill Dodger Stadium 5 times, study finds

There were at least 269,000 K-12 students in California experiencing homelessness at the end of the 2018-19 school year — enough children and teens to fill Dodger Stadium five times over — and that number was likely a gross underestimate, a UCLA report said. In the face of pandemic-related job losses and economic instability, researchers believe that the number of homeless students in California is likely to surge, according to the study from UCLA’s Center for the Transformation of Schools.

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October 16, 2020 The Sacramento Bee

Are Sacramento homeless finding housing, only to be replaced on the street by someone else?

During the first six months of this year, 3,790 people in Sacramento County escaped homelessness, but another 3,736 became homeless, a new database released last month estimates. “The data, of course, tells us that just as many people are entering homelessness as exiting homelessness,” Mayor Darrell Steinberg said.

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October 7, 2020 The Los Angeles Times

This was supposed to be the year for California’s homeless. Instead it’s a slow ‘train wreck’

This was supposed to be the year that California finally did something about its epidemic of homelessness. On Feb. 19, Gov. Gavin Newsom stood before lawmakers in the state Capitol, and delivered an unprecedented State of the State address devoted entirely to the homelessness crisis. California is home to one-quarter of the nation’s homeless population, a grim distinction painfully visible not only on city sidewalks, but also along the state’s freeways and farm levees, in its urban parks and suburban strip malls.

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