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Barry Bearak (NYT) INDIA: FLOOD VICTIMS -- Flooding in eastern India has claimed more than 120 lives and left more than 2.5 million people homeless, authorities said.

A powerful earthquake and dozens of strong aftershocks struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra late Sunday, killing at least 44 people, injuring hundreds and leaving thousands homeless, authorities said.

The agency has lost 300 transitional units to defunding over five years, according to homeless authority data.

Based on the annual survey of homeless people, the homeless authority estimates that about 156,000 people are homeless at some point every year.

Homeless authority commission members called for more state and local money, and said neighborhoods throughout the county must accept housing for homeless residents.

The homeless authority attributed the increase at least in part to the loss of beds in programs that were converted to permanent housing or had their funding cut.

After discovering a math error, the homeless authority has since nearly doubled the apples-to-apples change for the city from 2.7%to5.2%2.7%to5.2%

The homeless authority's analysis concluded that L.A. County needs 25,000 units of permanent supportive housing, about 9,000 of which already exist.

In turn, the homeless authority, which competes for HUD money to pass on to local agencies, is requiring longstanding programs to drop their transitional housing.

In an email, a spokesman for the homeless authority said it supports the federal policy and believes the reallocation of grants will serve more people and better distribute resources.

A father, his three children and a firefighter were hurt last night in a three-alarm fire that heavily damaged three rowhouses and left at least seven families homeless, the authorities said.