A new report found Los Angeles’ recent rise in homelessness may not be as large as first thought due to a major accounting error. According to the L.A. Times, an accounting glitch in shelter data accounted for nearly half of the city’s reported increase in homelessness this year. Initially, L.A.’s homeless count was thought to have increased by 3.4 percent. The DTLA district’s homeless population swelled last year by more than 800 people (24 percent), records showed. Those numbers accounted for more than half of the city’s 3.4 percent increase, according to Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), which conducts the count.