加州无家可归人数连续第二年下降：2026年初步数据无庇护者较2024年降近13%，已略低于2019年水平
加利福尼亚州州长 Gavin Newsom 10月28日在 Sacramento 宣布，2026年初步时点计数（Point-in-Time）数据显示，加州无庇护无家可归者人数连续第二年下降，自2024年以来累计下降近13%，目前已略低于2019年他上任时的水平；无庇护无家可归与无家可归总人数同时下降，是加州十多年来首次连续两年双降。
州长办公室说，本次初步结果汇总了37个参与今年无庇护时点计数的「连续照护」（Continuum of Care）地区，这37个地区占全州2025年报告无庇护人口的近90%，其无庇护无家可归人数较各自上一次计数（2024年或2025年）下降7.3%。按全州44个地区初步估算，无庇护无家可归人数较2025年报告数字下降6.5%，无家可归总人数下降3.4%；2024年至2026年两年间，全州初步估算无庇护无家可归累计下降12.8%，总人数下降6%。州政府在联邦政府公布2026年全国时点计数结果之前先行发布本州初步数据，沿用今年早些时候发布2025年数据的做法。
联邦数据提供了全国对照：据美国住房与城市发展部（HUD）确认的2025年数据，加州无庇护无家可归人数当年下降6.77%，降幅是全国2.88%的两倍多，按人数计为各州最大。州长办公室说，2025年与2026年这两年的数字降幅，是2009年以来最大的两次；从2019年到2025年，全国无庇护无家可归人数上升26%，加州同期增幅仅为全国的四分之一（6.6%），表现优于其他44个州，而计入2026年的进一步下降后，加州无庇护无家可归人数已经略低于2019年水平。
纽森说：「加州正在证明，无家可归并非不可避免。我们取得进展，是因为我们在建住房、扩大治疗与庇护，并要求我们自己和地方政府负起责任。我们不会退缩——也还没有完成。」
州长办公室同时列出近年政策：2024年选民通过纽森提出的第一号提案（Proposition 1），其债券资金全面拨付后预计新增至少6,800张住宿治疗床位和26,700个行为健康门诊名额；州政府50年来首次更新监护（conservatorship）法律，并新建 CARE Court 法院照护计划；加州气候投资计划拨出7,700万美元，支持 Los Angeles 的 Jordan Downs 公共住房项目扩建改造，这是该地区最大的公共住房项目。州长办公室说，纽森2025年设立的 SAFE 特别工作组已在旧金山、洛杉矶、Long Beach、Sacramento 与 Fresno 处理露宿营地、为数十人接上庇护；自2021年以来，加州交通厅（Caltrans）已清除州有路权范围内的19,000多处营地，清理约354,000立方码垃圾与杂物。
California Homelessness Falls for Second Straight Year: Preliminary 2026 Data Show Unsheltered Count Down Nearly 13% Since 2024, Slightly Below 2019 Levels
California Governor Gavin Newsom announced in Sacramento on October 28 that preliminary 2026 Point-in-Time data show unsheltered homelessness in California has declined for the second consecutive year, down nearly 13% since 2024, with the estimated unsheltered population now slightly below 2019 levels, when Newsom took office. Both unsheltered and total homelessness have fallen two years in a row, the first back-to-back declines in more than a decade.
The Governor's Office said the preliminary results include updated unsheltered counts from the 37 Continuum of Care regions that took part in this year's unsheltered Point-in-Time count. Those 37 regions accounted for nearly 90% of California's reported unsheltered population in 2025, and within them unsheltered homelessness declined 7.3% from their most recent prior counts, conducted in 2024 or 2025. Across all 44 regions statewide, preliminary estimates show unsheltered homelessness down 6.5% and total homelessness down 3.4% from reported 2025 figures; over the two years from 2024 to 2026, preliminary statewide estimates show unsheltered homelessness falling 12.8% and total homelessness declining 6%. The state released its preliminary 2026 results ahead of the federal government's national 2026 Point-in-Time findings, as it did earlier this year with the 2025 data.
Federal figures provide the national comparison: according to U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-confirmed 2025 data, California's unsheltered homelessness declined 6.77% in 2025, more than twice the national decline of 2.88%, and California's numerical decline was the largest of any state. The Governor's Office said the numerical declines in both 2025 and 2026 are the two largest since 2009, and that from 2019 to 2025 unsheltered homelessness rose 26% nationwide while California's increase was just one-quarter of the national rate, at 6.6%, outperforming 44 other states; the additional 2026 reductions now put the state's unsheltered population slightly below 2019 levels.
"California is proving that homelessness is not inevitable. We're making progress because we're building housing, expanding treatment and shelter, and holding ourselves and local governments accountable. We're not backing down — and we're not done," Newsom said.
The Governor's Office also listed recent policies: Proposition 1, approved by voters in 2024, is expected, when its bond funding is fully awarded, to create at least 6,800 residential treatment beds and 26,700 outpatient behavioral-health treatment slots; conservatorship laws have been updated for the first time in 50 years and a new CARE Court system created; and a $77 million investment from California's cap-and-invest program supports the expansion and redevelopment of the Jordan Downs Project in Los Angeles, the largest public housing project in the region. The Governor's Office said Newsom's SAFE Task Force, announced in 2025, has addressed encampments in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Sacramento and Fresno, connecting dozens of people with shelter, and that since 2021 Caltrans has removed more than 19,000 encampments on state right-of-way and collected approximately 354,000 cubic yards of litter and debris.
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