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Mental health change in the transition to permanent supportive housing: The role of housing and social networks
Journal of Community Psychology
Year: 2019
Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) may improve homeless adults’ mental health via housing stabilization and/or improved relational factors, however, the role of housing and social networks on PSH residents’ mental health change is minimally understood.
Changes in Physical Health After Supported Housing: Results from the Collaborative Initiative to End Chronic Homelessness
Journal of General Internal Medicine
Year: 2019
The permanent supported housing model is known to improve housing outcomes, but there has been sparse research on the effects of supported housing on physical health. Various organizations including the National Academy of Sciences have called for research in this … Continue reading
Early Intervention to Prevent Persistent Homelessness: Predictive Models for Identifying Unemployed Workers and Young Adults who become Persistently Homeless
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2019
Thousands of persistently homeless Americans are turning sidewalks of U.S. cities into camps for internally displaced persons. In major west coast metropolitan areas, the number of long-term homeless needing housing far exceeds the available housing supply, making it difficult to … Continue reading
Rapid Re-Employment Offers an Escape From Cardboard City. Homelessness is an Income Problem as Well as a Housing Problem
Los Angeles Times
Year: 2019
More taxpayer dollars are being spent on homeless housing and services, yet homelessness in Los Angeles County increased 12% last year and chronic homelessness is up 17%. Society needs to do better. Homelessness is an income problem as well as … Continue reading
Comparing Tenant and Neighborhood Characteristics of the VA’s Project- vs. Tenant-Based Supportive Housing Program in Los Angeles County
Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved
Year: 2019
The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)-Veteran Administration Supportive Housing (VASH) program uses project- and tenant-based vouchers to provide permanent supportive housing for homeless Veterans. We compared Veteran characteristics, health service utilization, and neighborhood characteristics between HUD-VASH … Continue reading
Predicting and Preventing Homelessness in Los Angeles
California Policy Lab; UChicago Urban Labs Poverty Lab
Year: 2019
The California Policy Lab and the University of Chicago Poverty Lab have used County data on multi-system service use to predict homelessness among single adults receiving mainstream County services. By identifying people at high risk of first-time homelessness or returns … Continue reading
The 2019 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress Part 1: Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: Office of Community Planning and Development
Year: 2019-2020
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) 2019 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) Part 1 provides national estimates of homelessness in the United States. This report furthers our understanding of homelessness in our country by looking at the … Continue reading
Social Work’s Grand Challenge to End Homelessness: Policy Proposals for the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election
Grand Challenges for Social Work
Year: 2019-2020
In this fast-paced year leading up to the Presidential Election of 2020, reducing housing insecurity and homelessness is gaining surprising traction. With homelessness rates rising in major cities, it seems this decades-long crisis has no end in sight. We respectfully … Continue reading
Child Care Needs of Families Experiencing Homelessness in Los Angeles County
The Child Care Resource Center
Year: 2019
In April 2019, the Child Care Resource Center (CCRC) hired HMA Community Strategies (HMACS) to lead a research project to better understand the role of child care in supporting and lifting families out of homelessness, and the ways in which … Continue reading
Counting the Homeless: Improving Knowledge of the Unsheltered Homeless Population
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2019
This white paper reviews the limitations of current PIT counts, introduces the multiple-list method that combines PIT and HMIS data, briefly reviews possible extensions of these methods to provide communities with more frequent estimates of the dynamics of their homeless … Continue reading