{"id":698,"date":"2014-02-24T16:05:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T16:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN324WP\/?p=698"},"modified":"2014-07-13T05:36:01","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T05:36:01","slug":"698","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"Antelope Valley homeless population takes unexplained jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article in this morning&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/la-me-homeless-lancaster-20140224,0,2458201.story\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>\u00a0reports a large jump in Lancaster, California&#8217;s homeless population. \u00a0Reporter Gale Holland points out that Lancaster is the last stop on L.A.&#8217;s Metro Line, so it&#8217;s possible that L.A. authorities are giving the homeless a one-way ticket out of town. \u00a0On the other hand, the jump from\u00a01,412 Lancaster homeless in 2011 to 6,957 in 2013 may be just a more thorough biennial count. \u00a0(Some counts don&#8217;t bother to look for people in cars, miss the &#8216;hidden homeless&#8217;, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>Holland writes that local shelter operators see little evidence of dumping, and that most of Lancaster&#8217;s homeless population has local ties. \u00a0That&#8217;s the pattern our University of Redlands team found a few years ago, when we conducted a homeless survey: most local homeless were either long-term residents or had relatives in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Read Holland&#8217;s article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/la-me-homeless-lancaster-20140224,0,2458201.story\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in this morning&#8217;s Los Angeles Times\u00a0reports a large jump in Lancaster, California&#8217;s homeless population. \u00a0Reporter Gale Holland points out that Lancaster is the last stop on L.A.&#8217;s Metro Line, so it&#8217;s possible that L.A. authorities are giving the homeless a one-way ticket out of town. \u00a0On the other hand, the jump from\u00a01,412 Lancaster &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=698\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Antelope Valley homeless population takes unexplained jump<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumping","category-homelessness","category-news-link"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s47OlK-698","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}