UCLA Institution of Transportation Studies
Year: 2023
In recent decades, homelessness has become an increasingly major challenge in the U.S. Of the half million unhoused people in the U.S., many seek shelter in settings under the auspices of state departments of transportation (DOTs), such as freeways, underpasses, … Continue reading
American Sociological Review
Year: 2023
Social provision in the United States is highly decentralized. Significant federal and state funding flows to local organizational actors, who are granted discretion over how to allocate resources to people in need. In welfare states where many programs are underfunded … Continue reading
UCLA Williams Institute
Year: 2020
Using data collected from the Generations Study and the U.S. Transgender Population Health Survey, this study is the first to provide estimates of the percentage of sexual and gender minority adults experiencing homelessness compared to cisgender straight adults using a … Continue reading
American Journal of Public Health
Year: 2022
The point-in-time (PIT) homeless count conducted annually in communities across the United States is a major metric reported to the federal government that has a number of limitations. With the PIT count in 2021 being optional because of the COVID-19 … Continue reading
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2020
Latinx people experiencing homelessness, a rapidly growing population, accounted for 36% of the homeless population in the Los Angeles Continuum of Care in 2019. Due to a unique combination of challenges, including language barriers, culturally rooted stigmas, a lack of … Continue reading
Sociology Mind
Year: 2019
Racial disparities in social, education and health services continue unabated despite efforts to address them. At the margins of the service delivery system are lesser-known and minimally researched programs known as “culturally specific organizations” that have been developed by and … Continue reading
Homelessness Services Law Center
Year: 2019
This report—the only national report of its kind—provides an overview of laws in effect across the country that punish homelessness. With the assistance of the law firms Dechert LLP, Sullivan & Cromwell, and Kirkland & Ellis, the Law Center examined … Continue reading
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Year: 2021
This study examines racial inequities and homelessness in the United States through mixed methods research in eight communities. We compare the race and ethnicity of those experiencing homelessness to the general population and to people in poverty, and we also … Continue reading
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2023
This brief synthesizes the most current available data on homelessness in California. It details the most pressing issues regarding the current state of homelessness in California, who is experiencing homelessness in the State, how the homelessness crisis came to be, … Continue reading
Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative
Year: 2023
IN CALIFORNIA, more than 171,000 people experience homelessness daily. California is home to 12% of the nation’s population, 30% of the nation’s homeless population, and half the nation’s unsheltered population. While homelessness is a major issue for California, there are … Continue reading