Search Research Catalogue
An Analysis of Safe Parking Programs: Identifying Program Features and Outcomes of an Emerging Homelessness Intervention
Housing Policy Debate
Year: 2024
As vehicular homelessness increases in the United States, safe parking programs have proliferated. Yet little research exists on this emerging homelessness intervention. This three-year, mixed-methods study analyzed one of the largest safe parking programs in operation: the Jewish Family Service … Continue reading
Voices from the Field: Continua of Care Representatives Discuss Strategies and Opportunities for Promoting Equity in Homelessness Services in the United States
Journal of Social Distress and Homelessness
Year: 2024
The current study synthesizes findings from interviews with 14 CoCs representatives (64% female, 71% White) asking how CoCs are addressing local race-based disparities through homelessness services and how HUD can help them in these efforts. Results indicated that HUD’s policy … Continue reading
Beyond the Bias: Realities of Homelessness in California
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
Understanding CalAIM Implementation Across California
UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation
Year: 2024
In January 2022, California’s Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) and its local partners began the implementation of California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM). DHCS describes CalAIM as “a long-term commitment to transform Medi-Cal, making the program more equitable, coordinated, … Continue reading
Ending Poverty Summit Summary Report
City of Los Angeles Ending Poverty Summit
Year: 2024
On October 13, 2022, the Los Angeles Community Investment for Families Department (CIFD) convened the 2022 Ending Poverty Summit at the California Endowment Center for Healthy Communities Los Angeles. The Summit expanded upon the first Poverty Summit in 2019, which … Continue reading
The Work behind Work: Combatting Homelessness with Jobs
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2024
The most common reason unhoused individuals give for why they do not have a place of their own to live is unemployment and lack of income. Homelessness, according to those with lived experience, is primarily a problem of income. Building … Continue reading
6th & Berendo Encampment Resolution
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
The Road, Home: Challenges of and Responses to Homelessness in State Transportation Environments
Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Year: 2023
In recent decades, homelessness has become an increasingly major challenge in the U.S., reaching about half million unhoused people. Many of them seek shelter in settings such as freeways, underpasses, and rest areas. State departments of transportation (DOTs) are responsible … Continue reading
“It Is Our Problem!”: Strategies for Responding to Homelessness on Transit
Transportation Research Record
Year: 2023
Buses, bus stops, trains, and train platforms represent sites of shelter for many of the over 500,000 Americans who are unhoused every night. This study seeks to understand how transit agencies are responding to them. Based on interviews with staff … Continue reading
Digital Health Intervention for People Experiencing Homelessness
Center for Community Health and Evaluation
Year: 2023
This report presents the preliminary findings of an independent evaluation of Samaritan, a digital health intervention designed to assist people experiencing homelessness (PEH) in gaining the social and financial support they need to reach their goals. California Healthcare Foundation (CHCF), … Continue reading