USC+URM Dental Clinic - National Network for Oral Health Access
USC+URM Dental Clinic - National Network for Oral Health Access
USC+URM Dental Clinic - National Network for Oral Health Access
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Homelessness in Los Angeles<br />
• Los Angeles County has up to 91,000 people homeless on any<br />
given night, and up to 236,400 homeless in the course of one year.<br />
(Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, 2005)<br />
• Skid Row, a 52-block area just east of downtown LA, has an<br />
estimated 19,000 homeless men and women at any given time.<br />
This is the largest community in the US of indigent, transient,<br />
and low-income residents.<br />
• Families, typically headed by single mothers, are a growing number<br />
of LA’s homeless population. The average age of homeless adults is<br />
now 40 years. (Weingart Center, March 2003)
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