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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
Towards the Prevention of Youth Homelessness
Youth Homelessness Prevention
Year: 2024
Historically, the prevention of youth homelessness has not been a priority in Canada or the United States. In recent years, this has begun to change. While there is growing recognition that a shift by preventing homelessness is required to bring … Continue reading
State of Homelessness: 2024 Edition
National Alliance to End Homelessness
Year: 2024
The Homelessness Response System is Helping More People Sleep Inside, But It Can’t Keep Up with Demand.
Aging Out of Foster Care in Los Angeles: Opportunities to Prevent Homelessness Among Transition-Aged Youth
California Policy Lab
Year: 2024
Each year, around 1,000 youth age out of Los Angeles’ foster care system. Many of these transition-aged youth (“TAY”) will go on to experience homelessness, and in surveys, nearly one in four youth formerly in foster care report having been … 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
Barriers Faced by People Experiencing Homelessness in Los Angeles when Filing Social Security Disability Appeals: A Qualitative and Community-Engaged Study
National Bureau of Economic Research
Year: 2024
People experiencing homelessness (PEH) face many barriers to accessing public benefits. Over 75,500 people are unhoused in Los Angeles County and many live with severe disabilities. In this article, we examine barriers faced by PEH in Los Angeles County when … Continue reading