The number of people living in homelessness in Los Angeles increased significantly last year echoing a broader rise in people living unhoused across the state in recent years.

Los Angeles County saw a 12% increase in homeless residents from 2018 to 2019, according to new point-in-time count figures the LA Homeless Services Authority released Tuesday. There were nearly 59,000 homeless people in the county on a given night in January 2019 up from under 53,000 in 2018 .

The vast majority of those who are homeless about two-thirds are in the city of Los Angeles, which counted over 36,000 homeless people this year, a 16% increase from last year.

Overall the figures show a dramatic 36% increase in homelessness since 2010 in the county.

Shame on you! yelled one audience member at the county board of supervisors meeting when the figures were announced.

Los Angeles figures follow even more disappointing ones from areas further north released last month: Homelessness spiked in the San Francisco Bay Area with the number of homeless people in San Francisco going up 17% and in Alameda County (which includes Oakland) up 43% since 2017.

Any increase in homelessness is heartbreaking, and we can see with our own eyes on the streets of LA and cities across California that the crisis has tightened its grip around the lives of too many of our neighbors, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti (D) said in a statement to HuffPost. These results remind us of a difficult truth: skyrocketing rents statewide and federal disinvestment in affordable housing, combined with an epidemic of untreated trauma and mental illness, is pushing people into homelessness faster than they can be lifted out.