California Homeless Population 2024. California is counting its homeless population. New data shows nearly 186,000 people now live on the streets and in homeless shelters in california, proving the crisis continues to grow despite increasing state and local efforts to stem the tide.

A state audit has found that california spent $24 billion to tackle homelessness over a five year period but didn’t consistently track the outcomes or. The new calmatters lawsuit comes amid a bigger reckoning over homelessness in the nation’s most populous state.