Los Angeles is housing more people than ever, and building lots more low-income housing, yet it can’t keep pace with this ever-rising number of people who end up in cars, tents and shelters.
“It’s a bucket with a hole in it, so we’ve got to do something … to fill that hole,” says Dana Vanderford, who helps lead the department’s Homelessness Prevention unit.
With that goal, the pilot program is using artificial intelligence to predict who’s most likely to land on the streets, so the county can step in to offer help before that happens.