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Santa Monica Not Alone as Coastal Cities Grapple with Increases in Homelessness

Santa Monica Not Alone as Coastal Cities Grapple with Increases in Homelessness

02/13/2018 11:20 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

February 13, 2018 -- Behind a dramatic 23 percent jump in the homeless population throughout Los Angeles County in 2017, coastal cities like Santa Monica experienced a particular blow.

The Pacific’s beaches in Los Angeles County are an attraction hard to beat, for the general population as well as its growing sub-population of people living on beaches, the streets and encampments.

Of the additional 55,188 people counted as homeless in 2017, eight percent clustered around ten metro L.A. beach communities, including Santa Monica, which saw its homeless population rise to 921, according to data from the 2017 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count and other records.