California

Subway census of the homeless

A person sleeps beside an escalator at the Hollywood/Vine Metro station. The 2018 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is tallying people around the city, including those sleeping near Metro stations and on trains.

A person sleeps beside an escalator at the Hollywood/Vine Metro station. The 2018 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count is tallying people around the city, including those sleeping near Metro stations and on trains.

  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Share

Volunteers rode the Metro Red Line to take a census of the people who sleep on train cars and in and near stations for the 2018 Homeless Count.

Transit homeless count

With swollen legs and wearing a hospital gown, a homeless man sits on a bench at the Metro Civic Center station in Los Angeles.

  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Transit homeless count

A person sits on the floor at Hollywood/Vine Metro station.

  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Transit homeless count

From left, PATH (People Assisting the Homeless) workers Jennie Mauries, Karen Barnes and Andrew Tisbert walk to a Red Line train in Los Angeles. They are part of a team counting homeless people.

  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Transit homeless count

A man sitting on the floor was counted in the Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count by PATH (People Assisting the Homeless) workers at the Universal City station in Studio City.

  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Transit homeless count

A person sleeps at Hollywood/Vine Metro station in Los Angeles, where the 2018 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count was underway. The three-day count seeks to put a number on the county’s homeless population.

  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

California

More From the Los Angeles Times