Six homeless people will die today in LA County, and over 2,000 will die by the end of the year. Among our homeless population in 2024, drug overdoses alone killed 884 people. One hundred five were murdered. Eighty died by suicide. Meanwhile, the Fire Department responded to nearly 17,000 fires linked to homeless encampments, roughly a third of all fires in LA over the past six years.  And three weeks ago, the Department of Public Health announced an outbreak of the flea-borne disease typhus,