Adults and Children Who Are Homeless
• There are approximately 24,000 adults and children living on the streets or in homeless facilities in the City of Long Beach over the course of a year;
• There are nearly 6,000 (5,845) adults and children who are homeless in the City of Long Beach on a given day
- 77 percent (4,509) live on the streets and 23 percent (1,336) live in homeless facilities;
• Of the nearly 6,000 homeless adults and children:
- About half are men (2,699)
- About half are women and children—(1,072) are women and (2,069) are children
• Approximately 800 families are homeless on a given day.
Adults and Children Who Are At-Risk-To-Homelessness
• 150,000 residents of Long Beach (one of every three residents) were members of a household whose income was $25,000 a year or less according to U.S. 2000 Census Data.
50,000 residents of Long Beach (one out of every nine residents) were members of a household whose income was $10,000 a year or less according to U.S. 2000 Census Data.
Household income of less than $10,000 is at poverty-level for one-person households and well below poverty-level for two or more person households.
Persons on fixed incomes, such as elderly and/or disabled persons, often receive an annual amount of $12,000 or less and, as a result, do not have a monthly income adequate to meet the city’s rising housing costs.
For additional information about local homelessness see “The City of Long Beach 2004 Homeless Assessment”
