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Los Angeles County has cut homelessness, but wildfires threaten to erase that gain

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More than 187,000 people remain homeless in California , including 75,000 in Los Angeles County .

The wildfires are adding pressure to a system already under tremendous strain in getting chronically homeless people indoors.

Homeless service operators and street medicine providers are putting pressure on state and local leaders to allocate more funding to house people on the streets.

Residents of burned-down Art House say they're grateful they aren't on the streets, but anxiety grows by the day .

"It's constant stress of not knowing if I'm going to be in a stable housing situation," one survivor says.

Elected leaders have pledged to preserve the gains Los Angeles County has made in reducing homelessness by allocating existing resources and demanding more.