Economic Roundtable
Year: 2019
Thousands of persistently homeless Americans are turning sidewalks of U.S. cities into camps for internally displaced persons. In major west coast metropolitan areas, the number of long-term homeless needing housing far exceeds the available housing supply, making it difficult to … Continue reading
Los Angeles Times
Year: 2019
More taxpayer dollars are being spent on homeless housing and services, yet homelessness in Los Angeles County increased 12% last year and chronic homelessness is up 17%. Society needs to do better. Homelessness is an income problem as well as … Continue reading
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2015
The pathways into homelessness have been described through anecdotal stories but are seldom explored using public agency data for a large population over an extended time. This study aims to help overcome that deficit and provide a more definitive portrait … Continue reading
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2018
Information from 26 datasets with records of Los Angeles County’s homeless residents was used for a first-of-its-kind meta-analysis that identifies interventions for reducing chronic homelessness. Almost 600,000 Los Angeles County residents are in poverty and spend 90 percent or more … Continue reading
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2017
This report views Greater Los Angeles Homeless Counts from 2007 through 2017 as a body of work rather than discrete annual snapshots and assesses the extent to which the Counts present a consistent body of evidence and the extent to … Continue reading
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2017
We present a predictive model for identifying homeless persons likely to have high future costs for public services. It was developed by linking administrative records from 2007 through 2012 for seven Santa Clara County agencies and identifying 38 demographic, clinical … Continue reading
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2011
The triage tool, or crisis indicator, identifies homeless individuals in hospitals and jails who have continuing crises in their lives that create very high public costs. This redesigned tool is four times more accurate than the earlier screening tool released … Continue reading
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2013
This study evaluates outcomes from April 2011 to May 2013 for 163 hospital patients screened by the 10th Decile Project in Los Angeles, which works with hospitals to identify the 10 percent of homeless patients with the highest public and … Continue reading
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2009
The central question investigated in this study is the public costs for people in supportive housing compared to similar people that are homeless. The typical public cost for residents in supportive housing is $605 a month. The typical public cost … Continue reading