The Terner Center for Housing Innovation at University of California Berkeley
Year: 2023
California’s homelessness and housing crisis is complex, and the scale of the crisis has continued to grow. Data collected in early 2022 show that homelessness in California grew by six percent since 2020—an increase of almost 10,000 people. This brief … Continue reading
JAMA Network
Year: 2022
Few studies have used precise age-specific data to construct age-standardized estimates of the relative risks (RRs) of COVID-19 mortality for people experiencing homelessness (PEH) vs the general population, and none to date has addressed race and ethnicity and sex variations … Continue reading
Journal of Psychiatric Research
Year: 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately impacted marginalized populations including Black Americans, people with serious mental illness, and individuals experiencing homelessness. Although the double disadvantage hypothesis would suggest that individuals with multiple minoritized statuses would experience worse psychosocial impacts from the pandemic, … Continue reading
National Alliance to End Homelessness
Year: 2021
Racism is fundamental to the United States’ inception: our founding as a nation and economy depended on it. Chattel slavery and the genocide of Indigenous people supplied the labor and land for cotton, our nation’s first economic boon and lucrative … Continue reading
Health and Social Care
Year: 2022
As the COVID-19 pandemic persists in the U.S. and elsewhere, there is a growing need to understand the impacts of the pandemic on essential and frontline workers. Given the dearth of research on the experiences of homelessness services workers during … Continue reading
Journal of Social Service Research
Year: 2023
Research has illustrated how homeless service organizations have adjusted policies and services during the COVID-19 pandemic and how frontline workers have taken on the work of implementing new procedures, fine-tuning service strategies, and navigating challenges. This qualitative study sought to … Continue reading
Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness
Year: 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has likely substantially compounded hardships for people experiencing homelessness. In addition to their already heightened health risks, shelter-in-place orders and recommended physical distancing have constrained available services. Though people experiencing homelessness have surely also been impacted economically, … Continue reading
The Terner Center for Housing Innovation at University of California Berkeley
Year: 2022
Finding a safe place to sleep is frequently the most significant hardship facing people experiencing homelessness. Most people experiencing homelessness are unsheltered, with 2020 point-in-time (PIT) data showing that 161,548 people were experiencing homelessness in California, while the state had … Continue reading
The Terner Center for Housing Innovation at University of California Berkeley
Year: 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic increased the urgency to respond to the nation’s homelessness crisis. At the start of the pandemic, an estimated 578,000 people were experiencing homelessness across the United States on a given night, and faced heightened risks of severe … Continue reading
International Journal on Homelessness
Year: 2023
Severe illness and mortality from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are especially pronounced threats for people experiencing homelessness. COVID-19 vaccination access is correspondingly urgent for this population. Advocates, healthcare providers, and homelessness service providers have been conducting substantial vaccination outreach in … Continue reading