2016 State Of Homelessness in America.

New 2016 Stats :

 • On a single night in 2016, 549,928 peoplewere experiencing homelessness in theUnited States. A majority (68%) was stayingin emergency shelters, transitional housingprograms, or safe havens, and 32 percent werein unsheltered locations.• Over one-fifth of people experiencinghomelessness were children (22%), 69 percentwere over the age of 24, and nine percent werebetween the ages of 18 and 24..On a Single Night in January 2016• Half of all people experiencing homelessnessdid so in one of five states: California (22%or 118,142 people); New York (16% or 86,352people); Florida (6% or 33,559 people); Texas(4% or 23,122 people); and Washington (4% or20,827 people).

• Of the 118,142 people experiencinghomelessness in California, 66 percent (78,390people) were without shelter and 34 percent(39,752) were staying in emergency shelters,transitional housing programs, or safe havens.

• California accounted for nearly half of allunsheltered people in the country in 2016(44%). Florida had the second highest shareof the unsheltered homeless population in theU.S., with nine percent (15,361 people).

• In four states, more than half of all peopleexperiencing homelessness lived inunsheltered locations: California (66%), Oregon(61%), Hawaii (54%), and Nevada (53%).

Source: The U.S. Department ofHousing and Urban DevelopmentOFFICE OF COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENThttps://www.hudexchange.info/.../doc.../2016-AHAR-Part-1.pdf

Lawyers: Deadly Oakland fire didn’t start in Ghost Ship warehouse

By Michael Bodley, San Francisco Chronicle

Updated 8:47 pm, Monday, January 23, 2017

Lawyers: Deadly Oakland fire didn’t start in Ghost Ship warehouse

By Michael Bodley, San Francisco Chronicle

 

Updated 8:47 pm, Monday, January 23, 2017

 
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The defense team for the owner of the Ghost Ship warehouse released a report Monday that alleges that the fire last month that gutted an Oakland warehouse and killed 36 people started at a building next door.

Attorneys for the leader of Oakland’s Ghost Ship warehouse claimed Monday that the fire that killed 36 people attending a music event at the artists collective started in an adjacent building.

In their second public remarks since being retained, lawyers for Derick Ion Almena said their investigation indicates he should not be held criminally responsible for the deadly Dec. 2 blaze.

The Alameda County district attorney’s office, which is conducting a criminal investigation, and the Oakland Fire Department, which is probing the official cause, have made no such determinations, and their investigation is ongoing, 

Media: KTVU

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Lawyers-Deadly-Oakland-fire-didn-t-start-in-10878366.php

L.A. NOW

What caused the deadly Ghost Ship fire? Officials aren't saying, but attorneys have unexpected theory

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ghost-ship-fire-20170123-story.html

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Ghost Ship fire: Derick Almena’s lawyers say fire started next door, cite independent analysis

http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/01/23/ghost-ship-fire-derick-almenas-lawyers-say-fire-started-next-door/