Homelessness in Long Beach increased just over 6%, with 219 more unhoused city residents compared with last year, according to results of the city’s annual point-in-time count.
Volunteers canvassed the city in the early hours of Jan. 23 and identified 3,595 people experiencing homelessness, according to figures released Monday.
More than 76% of the increase is a result of the wildfires that started Jan. 7, officials said. Among people surveyed, 167 said they were displaced by the fires that devastated large residential areas of Altadena, Pasadena, Sierra Madre, Pacific Palisades and Malibu and were still active during the point-in-time count…