HIT Consultant June 20, 2019
Irv Lichtenwald , CEO of Medsphere Systems Corporation

Americans are used to seeing California as a bellwether. Whether or not that’s a good or bad thing often depends on individual perspective.

But there’s less room for differences of opinion when it comes to housing and homelessness. With a booming economy that is now the fifth largest on planet Earth, California has also experienced a dramatic rise in homelessness in recent years. In Los Angeles County alone, homelessness has risen in three of the last four years, with a 12 percent increase in the last year.

The reasons for California’s uptick in homelessness are treated as obvious. Average rent in the LA area is now north of $2,000 a month, pushing many residents on the financial edge over the...

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