Barrier islands like the Chandeleur Islands are constantly building, eroding, and shifting under the normal actions of wind and waves. A powerful storm like Katrina can produce changes that otherwise may have taken many years, and most of the changes seen here are probably the result of Katrina.
California experienced the largest decline in the number of people experiencing homelessness, 25,034 fewer since 2007. Other states with large declines included Texas (11,293 fewer people), Florida (6,527), New Jersey (5,643), and Oregon (5,426).
1 47,725, or about 8% of the homeless population, are veterans. 2  1.4 million veterans are at risk of homelessness. 3  550,000 unaccompanied, single youth and young adults under the age of 24 experience a homelessness episode of longer than one week. 4  110,000 LGBTQ youth in the U.S. are homeless.