Civic Knowledge

The Los Angeles County Economic Roundtable maintains a data collection for the Los Angeles Point In Time homelessness counts, as well as data sets for the associated in person surveys. It’s a really remarkable collection, with information both about the locations of the homeless, as well as information about their demographics and health issues. The San Diego Regional Data Library has produced an analysis dataset of the survey data with a few re-coded variables, including Census geoids, that make analysis easier.

An exploration of the Los Angeles homelessness counts allocated to land use categories. Full notebook on github

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority is responsible for conducting the annual Point-In-Time-Count of homeless people in Los Angeles, and publishes the data to their website. The dataqset they publish dataset is re-packaged for easier analysis at the San Diego Regional Data Library’s Data Repository. . This analysis links the Data Library’s data package to LA City tax assessor’s parcels to study estimates of homless populations organized by land use categories.