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Nearly 20 percent of veterans have used acid, a rate that survives every demographic control, in RAND’s first nationally representative survey — which also finds roughly half don’t know whether disclosing use could cost them their VA benefits.
A four-year RAND street census across Hollywood, Venice, and Skid Row finds unsheltered homelessness has stopped falling. Tent encampments have shrunk, but rough sleeping now dominates and carries higher clinical need. New evidence links tent confiscation to rising rough sleeping, suggesting LA’s encampment-focused strategy has hit its limits.