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New report from the University of California, San Francisco paints stark picture of homelessness and the housing crisis in California. The largest representative study on homelessness since the mid-90s found the state’s income inequality and high housing costs left people vulnerable to homelessness – particularly older residents and residents of color. California is home to 30% of the nation’s homeless population and half of the nation’s unsheltered population – despite making up only 12% of the U.S. population – according to the study released Tuesday by the University of California, San Francisco. More than 171,000 people experience homelessness daily in California, two times more than the next highest state, New York, the report states. Highlights from the report's findings The most frequently reported economic reason was loss of income. “Participants living on the economic margin, with high housing costs, low incomes and little savings, had little margin for error,” the report...

ABC News' Jonathan Karl sat down with Eric Adams, Karen Bass and Sylvester Turner in Washington For the first time in history, Black mayors are leading America's four largest cities. ABC News' Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl recently sat down with three of them -- New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner -- in Washington, D.C., on the sidelines of the annual gathering of the countries' mayors. "It's a moment for us," Adams told Karl in the interview, which aired on ABC's "This Week." "It's a moment that we are now really going after those tough challenges and historical problems that we fought for many years to be in the driver's seat." Turner, who was first elected in 2016 and is currently serving a second term, said that while their mayoralities signal that "progress is being made," he hopes that enough Black mayors are elected "to th...