Interfaith Prayer Service on Zoom, Tues, Nov 14th at 12:15 PM for the 32 People "Without Fixed Abode" who died in Oct 2023 in OC
All are invited to a Zoom Interfaith Memorial Prayer Service on Tuesday, Nov 14th at 12:15 PM for the 32 people who died "Without Fixed Abode" in OC in October, 2023. Zoom info below. October tends to be a "Goldilocks" month for those sleeping on our streets, neither too hot nor too cold. (The nights have gotten substantially colder since the end of October). Yet, even though 32 deaths seems low compared to previous months including 51 in September, last year the October homeless death count was 27. All told, 432 people "without fixed abode" have already died in the County this year, with two months to go. Last year the death toll at this point in the year was 398. This is a 8.5% increase for the year over last. If things do not change, then 532 people "without fixed abode will have died in the County by the end of the year an equivalent of 9.3% of the County's homeless population (counted to be 5718 in the last PIT Count conducted in Janu