Year: 2023
The number of people staying in encampments is growing throughout Los Angeles County and City as the total number of unsheltered people in the region also increases. The visible nature of encampments on neighborhood streets and sidewalks, adjacent to highways, … Continue reading
Journal of the American Medical Association
Year: 2023
Year: 2023
The Homelessness Policy Research Institute (HPRI) has prepared this report to help better understand the Ocean Front Walk (OFW) encampment outreach effort. This report can aid in understanding the advantages of the Encampment to Home model, which continues to grow … Continue reading
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2023
The Ocean Front Walk (OFW) encampment outreach effort in Venice Beach engaged one of the largest encampments in Los Angeles in 2021, serving over 200 encampment residents. OFW was led by St. Joseph Center, a Venice-based nonprofit that acts as … Continue reading
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences
Year: 2021
Tent encampments have become an especially common form of homelessness in West Coast cities like Oakland, California, where the number of people living in tent encampments increased by 130 percent between 2017 and 2019. Living in tent encampments provides residents … Continue reading
Year: 2023
Beginning in 2016, as a response to increased attention and concern around its unsheltered, encamped homeless population, the City of San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) launched an initiative known as the Encampment Resolution Team (ERT). An … Continue reading
UCLA
Year: 2023
The Periodic Assessment of Trajectories of Housing, Health and Homelessness Study, or PATHS, is a joint initiative between USC and UCLA aimed at shining a light on the lives and experiences of PEH in LA County. PATHS features a representative … Continue reading
The People Concern
Year: 2024
The 6 th and Berendo encampment is located in CD10, in the Koreatown area. The encampment, located next to a church, was blocking driveway access to the church and at times, access to the sidewalk. In April of 2021, SPA … Continue reading
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2024
The homelessness crisis in California and throughout the United States is the direct consequence of inadequate housing policy, and yet, homelessness is consistently misrepresented as the result of poor personal decisions made by individuals in extreme poverty. The myths about … Continue reading
Dani’s Reading Notes
Year: 2024
This paper studies the impact of homeless encampments on residential property values with a novel procedure that infers the presence of encampments using citizenmade complaints about them. I find that 58% of residential properties transacted in Los Angeles between March … Continue reading