The new estimates represent a modest turnaround in the region’s fight against homelessness.
Debris is cleared at a homeless encampment along East 12th Street near 16th Avenue in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Oakland’s homeless population jumped 9% over the past two years, according to the latest official estimate. Oakland’s homeless population rose 9% over the past two years, even as the total number of unhoused people in Alameda County dipped 3%, according to the latest official estimate released Wednesday.
The latest tally identified 9,450 homeless people countywide, with 5,490 of them — more than half — living in Oakland. Just over 67% lived outdoors, in vehicles or in other places not meant for habitation. The rest stayed in shelters. While widely seen as an undercount, the estimates are crucial to helping cities and counties plan their homelessness response and determining how much state and federal funding they receive. The previous round of tallies for the five-county Bay Area showed around 31,000 people with no permanent place to live on any given night, a 7% increase since 2019.
“As someone who was homeless as a young mother and lived much of my life trying to survive without secure and stable housing, I know how much having a dignified place to stay can help end the cycle of homelessness,” Thao said in a statement. Elsewhere in Alameda County, Berkeley and Fremont, which have the second- and third-largest local homeless populations, saw decreases of 20% and 21%, respectively.
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