Santa Monica Organization Aims to House 100k Homeless

The city of Santa Monica has housed 113 homeless people in the past year, making Los Angeles County one of the leading homeless housing providers in the U.S., according to a national report released Thursday.

The report was authored by 100,000 Homes for the Homeless Campaign, a movement to permanently house 100,000 at-risk homeless people by July 2013.

In its first year, the campaign has helped secure permanent housing for 10,244 homeless individuals. L.A. County accounted for nearly 30 percent of the homeless housings among large communities. The project is exclusively dedicated to finding housing for vulnerable individuals.

Studies have shown, 84 percent of homeless people who find permanent housing keep the roofs over their heads.