The homeless population in Los Angeles County jumped 5.7 percent last year, with a sharp increase in tents and homeless encampments offering daily evidence of the problem sweeping this region, county officials said Wednesday.
Yet the findings, based on a three-night block-by-block census of homeless people living on the street, also described reason for optimism: a 30 percent drop in the number of homeless veterans and an 18 percent decrease in homeless families.
Officials said that these reductions were a result of spending on housing vouchers for veterans and increasing temporary shelters for homeless families, and that the success showed that there were ways to achieve even broader cuts in the homeless population.
“Where we invest, we see results,” said Peter Lynn, the executive director of the Los Angeles Homeless Services 
Authority, which oversees the homeless fight in the region. Still, he said, “homelessness is a crisis in Los Angeles.”
Jerry Jones, the director of policy at the Inner City Law Center here, and a longtime advocate for homeless people, said the figures confirmed the importance of spending on housing.
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