It’s by far the #1 cause. People lose their job or get priced out of their home and then either can’t afford to move elsewhere or don’t want to leave their supp

It’s by far the #1 cause. People lose their job or get priced out of their home and then either can’t afford to move elsewhere or don’t want to leave their support network, so they just… stay. LAHSA tends to provide good data via their annual surveys: https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=726-2020-greater-los-angeles-homeless-count-results https://www.lahsa.org/news?article=726-2020-greater-los-ange...