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Capitalization of Social Service Nonprofit Activities: Homeless Service Provider Openings and Home Values
Public Management Review
Year: 2025
Non-profit service providers often face local opposition due to dispersed social benefits, but concentrated costs. Using nationwide U.S. data, we find opening a non-profit homeless service provider is capitalized into home values in the surrounding zip code, increasing values by … Continue reading
Did They Start Out Homeless? Domestic Migration and Unsheltered Homelessness in Greater Los Angeles
Conference: 2025 Applied Demography Conference of the Population Association of America
Year: 2025
This study highlights how better demographic measurement more accurately informs public policymakers. In this era of renewed and more vigorous efforts to clear people experiencing unsheltered homelessness (unsheltered PEH) from city sidewalks, parks, and elsewhere, elected officials and other stakeholders … Continue reading
Jailing the Homeless: New Data Shed Light on Unhoused People in Local Jails
Prison Policy Initiavtives
Year: 2025
Local jails, which hold one out of every three people behind bars, have become America’s misguided answer to problems faced by the most vulnerable people, like poverty and homelessness. Despite jails’ central role in mass incarceration, comprehensive national data about … Continue reading
Navigating the Housing and Foster Care Systems in Los Angeles County
RAND
Year: 2025
Homelessness continues to be one of the most pressing policy issues in Los Angeles County, California. Although substantial investments have been made to address it over the past several years, the number of people experiencing homelessness is still large. It … Continue reading
How Much Do College Students Get from CalFresh Each Month?
California Policy Lab
Year: 2025
College students face higher rates of food insecurity than the general population, and programs like CalFresh can help them afford nutritious meals. CalFresh benefits can provide a significant boost to student’s food budgets, and the researchers found that on average, … Continue reading
Unmet Health Needs for People Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness in MacArthur Park
Year: 2025
Record numbers of homelessness across the United States continue to shine a spotlight on solutions to meet the needs of people experiencing homelessness (PEH). With nearly a quarter of the nation’s unsheltered population residing in Los Angeles County, valuable insights … Continue reading
Promoting Performance in Multilevel Governance and Delivery of Homelessness Services
Public Administration Review
Year: 2025
The current study contributes to practice in interagency performance management through a study of the system of federal grants awarded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to local Continuum of Care (CoC). The mixed methods design synthesizes a … Continue reading
Are Public Housing and Homelessness Linked? Evidence from Over 150 Large U.S. Metros and 9 International Case Studies
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2024
Why does the severity of the contemporary homelessness crisis vary so sharply across U.S. metropolitan areas? Lay explanations, implicating everything from differences in law enforcement to weather to social service provision to poverty to rental housing costs, abound. But careful … Continue reading
LA Homelessness Survey: Most Angelenos Say the Crisis is Ever-present
LAist
Year: 2024
A new survey reveals nearly universal agreement among Los Angeles County residents that homelessness in the region is a problem. Nearly 1 out of 10 respondents reported having experienced homelessness themselves.
What Should L.A. Do about Homelessness? Renters and Homeowners Answer Differently, Poll Finds
L.A. Times
Year: 2024
Poll after poll shows that just about everyone in Los Angeles believes homelessness is one of the biggest problems facing the region. But a key factor determining what Angelenos believe needs to be done about it is whether they’re homeowners, … Continue reading