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A new study by the University of California, San Francisco shows that homeless people in California were struggling with poor health and deep poverty before becoming homeless SAN FRANCISCO -- Homeless people in California are already a vulnerable group, often struggling with poor Health , trauma and deep poverty before they lose their housing , according to a new study on adult homelessness . The study released Tuesday by the University of California, San Francisco attempts to capture a comprehensive picture of how people become homeless in California, and what impeded their efforts at finding permanent housing. The representative survey of nearly 3,200 homeless people found that when they lost housing, their median household income was $960 a month, and for renters on leases it was $1,400 a month, of which on average half went to rent. Homelessness is a national crisis, and all too pervasive in California, where an estimated 171,000 people — or 30% of all homeless people in the U.S.

The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico is suing the city of Albuquerque over its treatment of the city’s homeless population. The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico is suing the city of Albuquerque over its treatment of the city’s homeless population. Attorneys from the law firm of Ives and Flores, the ACLU-NM and the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty (NMCLP) filed suit Monday, accusing the state’s largest city of illegally destroying property and encampments for the homeless , as well as jailing and fining them. “They’re criminalizing those residents, fining them for existing in public spaces and they are also taking their property [that they] need to function within our society and to hopefully transition out of homeless ness,” Laura Ives, partner at the law firm of Ives and Flores, told ABC News. MORE: Video Los Angeles declares homelessness an emergency Albuquerque has gotten rid of tents, bed rolls, shopping carts, identification cards and even birth certifi