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
The Lancet Regional Health - Americas
Year: 2026
Homeless encampments have become a visible and persistent feature of Canada’s housing crisis, intensifying debates over public safety and encampment removals. This article argues that forced encampment sweeps are ineffective, harmful, and economically inefficient. Drawing on national data and recent … Continue reading
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Abt Global
Year: 2025
Approximately two out of every three people experiencing homelessness in California do so in an unsheltered setting. The visibility of unsheltered homelessness coupled with this issue ranking high on the list of concerns for Californians has pushed lawmakers across the … Continue reading
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Abt Global
Year: 2025
The San Fernando Valley is an area within Los Angeles County, partially within the City of Los Angeles, surrounded by mountain ranges. Businesses and residential areas in the San Fernando Valley are more geographically spread out than other areas of … Continue reading
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Abt Global
Year: 2025
The area around the Los Angeles River Basin (LA River Basin) has seen an increased number of homeless encampments over the past few years. People living in the LA River Basin stay in a variety of terrains including the islands … Continue reading
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Abt Global
Year: 2025
Long Beach is a city within Los Angeles County. In 2023, Long Beach reported a total of 3,447 people experiencing homelessness, 71 percent of whom were experiencing unsheltered homelessness (2,456 people). While the city experienced a slight decline in overall … Continue reading
The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, Abt Global
Year: 2025
Over the past decade, homeless encampments in Los Angeles have grown and spread to areas such as highway on-and off-ramps, busy intersections, industrial areas, and along public parks and waterways. In 2022, as encampment resolution efforts were scaling across Los … Continue reading
Housing for Health
Year: 2025
Housing for Health has helped tens of thousands of people in their path toward permanent housing, in large part due to Measure H. We are grateful for the public’s support of Measure A, which passed in November 2024 and replaces … Continue reading
USC Street Medicine
Year: 2025
Street sweeps – also known as “encampment resolutions,” “encampment clearings,” or “displacements” – are increasingly common across the United States. These actions involve the forced removal of unsheltered individuals and their belongings from public spaces, often on the grounds of … Continue reading
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