For four days a week, Venice Family Clinic’s mobile exam room serves as a doctor’s office for those without homes in the Los Angeles area.
“We want to be there for them,” said Dr. Coley King, the clinic’s director of homeless health care.
There are more than 45,000 people experiencing homelessness in the city of Los Angeles, according to the city’s Homeless Services Authority. King says many of them suffer from serious medical illnesses.
“There are patients that have schizophrenia, have HIV. So I think there’s urgency from everyone to solve this,” King said.
Nearly half of all homeless people in the U.S. live in California, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The state had roughly one shelter bed for every three people who needed one last year, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.
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