Economic Roundtable
Year: 2022
Struggling workers are either everyone’s responsibility now or everyone’s problem later. When poorly paid workers become jobless at the thin edge of the job market and then unable to pay rent, homeless destitution follows. In fact, we are equipped with … Continue reading
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2021
Los Angeles County has a larger American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) population than any other county in the United States (165,513). The county also sits on the traditional homeland of three AIAN tribes: Fernandeno Tataviam, Tongva, and Chumash. However, the AIAN … Continue reading
UCLA Black Male Institute
Year: 2021
Charter schools in Los Angeles County serve over 252,000 students. In the 2018-2019 school year, 4,429 of those students were identified as experiencing homelessness. This brief report offers an analysis of countywide data on charter school students experiencing homelessness.
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2021
To discuss solutions to reduce and prevent homelessness, researchers, policymakers, and service providers must define the circumstances in which someone is considered homeless. The current definitions of homelessness vary depending on which agency defines the problem. Specifically, homelessness definitions in … Continue reading
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2020
Overview of Data: Seventy-four files from homeless street counts, demographic surveys of unsheltered individuals, and intake data for shelter residents, along with supporting documentation are available in this data library. These open source, de-identified person records provided by the Los … Continue reading
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Year: 2021
For over a decade, the Family Homelessness Initiative (FHI) has been working to reduce and prevent homelessness among families with children in King, Pierce, and Snohomish counties, by improving the coordination, efficiency, and effectiveness of the county crisis response systems. … Continue reading
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2022
Data is a critical aspect of maintaining the integrity of research. Systematic data collection allows for the measurement of the interactions between variables of interest that enable individuals to answer research questions, test hypotheses, and evaluate outcomes (Research Integrity, 2022). … Continue reading
LAHSA
Year: 2020
The Los Angeles homeless services system analysis is a tool to understand the current state of the homeless services system and to examine what strategies can be employed to pursue an optimal system, which would have the capacity to permanently … Continue reading
Military Medicine
Year: 2017
Introduction: To advance large-scale efforts to end veteran homelessness, an understanding of factors that contribute to housing insecurity is necessary. Common risk behaviors (e.g., substance use and risky sexual practices) are associated with lengthier experiences of homelessness among the general homeless … Continue reading
On October 25, 2022, as part of our annual Data Month, several of HPRI’s Research Committee members—Patricia St. Clair (USC), Benjamin Henwood (USC), Randall Kuhn (UCLA), and Emily Vaughn Henry (LAHSA)—lead a conversation on the 2022 Los Angeles Homelessness Point … Continue reading