More homeless people in Los Angeles mentally ill than previously reported

Los Angeles County officials drastically underplayed how many of the nearly 60,000 homeless people living there suffered from mental illness or substance abuse, a new analysis found. The Los Angeles Times inspected more than 4,000 questionnaires taken as part of the federally-mandated 2019 count — and found that 67 percent of the county’s homeless reported...

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