Fires in California are putting terrible new pressure on affordable housing.

I'm David Brancaccio. Between 130,000 and 180,000 people in Southern California are under orders to stay out of their homes, given the firestorms that have swept the Los Angeles area this week.

Many are in temporary shelters. Others are staying with friends, relatives, second homes, or in RVs.

Others are in hotels and motels, putting pressure on housing that will also affect the regions chronically unhoused.

Marketplaces Kimberly Adams has more.

For the roughly 75,000 people in Los Angeles experiencing homelessness,

natural disasters like these fires come with additional risks. Nania Campbell is with the University

of Colorado Boulder's Natural Hazard Center. There are challenges with getting access to information,

and there are also barriers to accessing shelter.

The evacuation shelters are filling with newly displaced people, even as existing homeless shelters face fire risk.

We had to evacuate four sites, so roughly close to 300 people just for us.

Jennifer Hark-Dietz is CEO of Path, a homeless service provider in California.

The sunset fire came up really quickly, and within a matter of minutes, we had to start figuring out our plan for evacuation.

Recovering from a disaster like this can be more challenging for the homeless as well,

says Sarah DeYoung at the University of Delaware's Disaster Research Center.

Because they'll have to find new supplies, whether it be tarps or temporary RV housing

or things that they had set up and that they've lost.

And they'll be doing it while there's suddenly a whole new population of people experiencing

homelessness, maybe for the first time. In Washington, I'm Kimberly Adams for Marketplace.

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