Tenth Homeless Map Now Online
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — 
The tenth Cartifact Downtown Homeless Map just went online, showing the count taken on the morning of the 15th. Only 700 people were counted on the streets, the lowest number since the counts started. The ten maps represent eighteen weeks of homeless count data.
With the new map we've also added a new intro slide that shows attempts to provide a little bit of context for the area shown. The colored buildings show service providers and residential hotels. Even as someone who's walked around through Skid Row plenty of times, it still amazes me to see how high the concentration of services is over there. Some blocks are almost entirely filled in with providers and SROs.
Be sure to also check out the Process tab on the site, particularly to see the third tab showing surface modeling.
If you missed previous discussion of the map, you can find that here.
Pegasus on March 21, 2007, at 08:19PM – #1
I am somewhat surprised to hear that and to see the recent trends that are mapped. I have noticed an up-tick in homeless camping on the sidewalk in recent weeks (months), at least along Flower between my parking garage btwn 8th/9th and the Pegasus building. I had originally attributed it to displacement from recent efforts to get the homeless off the street around skid row, but who knows...
Scott Mercer on March 23, 2007, at 05:26AM – #2
It seems there is a bit of the population spreading out, but it has also declined from almost 1200 people to 700 people in a few months. Could it be because we're in the "cold" winter, when it's less comfortable to sleep outside?
Or is it a result of increased efforts in the area by the LAPD. Supposedly these people have "nowhere to go." Where did they go? Almost 50% of them went somewhere else-- over 400 people. Did they all end up in jail? Curious.