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
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2018
We can’t navigate without a map. If we can’t see the whole picture of homelessness, we can’t begin to solve the problem. This meta-analysis brings together 26 point-in-time data sets to provide a single panoramic description of people without homes … Continue reading
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2018
In this article, we present a predictive model for identifying homeless persons likely to have high future costs for public services. We developed the model by linking administrative records from 2007 through 2012 for 7 Santa Clara County, California agencies … 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
California Journal of Politics and Policy
Year: 2012
Governments at all levels are tasked with administering public programs that serve large numbers of people. The use of integrated data systems (IDS), which can be used to link administrative records from multiple public agencies into one database, offer a … Continue reading
County of Los Angeles Chief Executive Office Service Integration Branch
Year: 2012
The purpose of this report is to provide the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors with information on the cost effectiveness of Project 50, a program created by action of the Board and funded by the County’s Homeless Prevention Initiative … Continue reading