Substance Use Disorders are prevalent among 52% of adults experiencing chronic homelessness in Los Angeles County.¹ In the broader media, we rarely hear the clear evidence about how homelessness and substance use disorders intersect. Lack of affordable housing and substance … Continue reading
Unhoused individuals, particularly those who are unsheltered, are uniquely vulnerable to the negative health and wellbeing impacts wrought by extreme weather and disasters, such as extreme heat, air pollution, and winter storms (Adepoju et al., 2022; Calvin et al., 2023; … Continue reading
The American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Homelessness Symposium will bring together leaders, scholars, and advocates to discuss Indigenous homelessness through the lenses of innovative legal frameworks, human rights, Indigenous conceptions of home/belonging, and transformative systems change. Dr. Andrea Garcia, … Continue reading
Los Angeles County Women’s Needs Assessment: Findings and recommendations from the 2022 Survey of Women Experiencing Homelessness. In 2020, both the City and County of Los Angeles County identified “unaccompanied” women experiencing homelessness as a unique subpopulation among people experiencing … Continue reading
While guaranteed income and cash transfer programs have existed in other portions of the world, such as Latin America, since the 1980s (Fotta and Schmidt, 2023), the discussion of Universal Basic Income in the 2020 presidential debates and the widespread … Continue reading
The Homelessness Policy Research Institute’s Race Equity Committee hosted its annual in-person retreat at USC’s Caruso Catholic Center. Tapping into personal artistic expression, spiritual healing, guided meditation, fine arts performance, and trauma-informed qualitative research methods, the retreat provided a space … Continue reading
The implementation of Coordinated Entry Systems (CES) has become a common feature across the country, particularly after the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) required the use of such systems for its largest grant program in 2013. These systems … Continue reading
As the cost of housing continues to rise across the United States, homelessness remains a growing issue in nearly all areas of the country (NAEH). In urban areas, this struggle is often visually and physically represented by the presence of … Continue reading
Older adults who experience, or are at risk of, homelessness are a uniquely vulnerable population. The elderly are not only naturally more susceptible to many maladies, including disease, mental health disorders, physical injuries and disabilities (World Health Organization, 2019), but … Continue reading
Nationally, Latinx homelessness increased by 8% between 2020 and 2022, with a 16% increase in those who were unsheltered (HUD, 2022). These increases outpaced overall increases in homelessness across the nation. Across the largest CoCs nationwide by PIT Count, Latinx homelessness increased more (or decreased less) than … Continue reading