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Housing Affordability Standards
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2018
The housing affordability problem in Los Angeles and the rest of the country is widespread and its severity is clear. Over half of Los Angeles renters are cost-burdened by housing and over 20 million renters nation-wide spent more than 30% … Continue reading
2018 HPRI Research Symposium Brief
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2018
Key takeaways and learnings from the inaugural HPRI Research Symposium with speaker Dr. Suzanne Wenzel, Richard and Ann Thor Professor in Urban Social Development at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, presented research findings from the recent National … Continue reading
Flexible Housing Subsidy Programs
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2018
California’s housing crisis has been marked by a continual rise in housing costs and compounded by a severe lack of affordable options. One strategy deployed to try and curb this trend is the implementation of flexible housing subsidy programs, which … Continue reading
Transitions to Housing in Los Angeles: Health & Services
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2018
Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) is an evidence-based solution to house individuals experiencing chronic or long-term homelessness and who have physical or mental health problems. PSH residents report high rates of chronic health conditions, and their health appears to be worse … Continue reading
Applying a prevention framework to address homelessness as a population health issue
Journal of Public Health Policy
Year: 2018
This paper presents a population health framework for homelessness prevention. Rooted in the Los Angeles County Homeless Initiative, the framework includes strategies that affect social determinants of health that influence a broad range of health outcomes prevalent among the homeless. … Continue reading
Moving Beyond Housing: Service Implications for Veterans Entering Permanent Supportive Housing
Clinical Social Work Journal
Year: 2018
As a result of efforts to end homelessness among U.S. veterans, more former service members are entering permanent supportive housing (PSH). While PSH has been successfully used to house homeless veterans, more research is needed about services beyond housing placement … Continue reading
Escape Routes: Meta-Analysis of Homelessness in L.A.
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2018
Information from 26 datasets with records of Los Angeles County’s homeless residents was used for a first-of-its-kind meta-analysis that identifies interventions for reducing chronic homelessness. Almost 600,000 Los Angeles County residents are in poverty and spend 90 percent or more … Continue reading
Predictive and/or Protective Factors for Homelessness
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2018
The pathways into homelessness have been described through anecdotal stories but are seldom explored using public agency data for a large population over an extended time. This study aims to help overcome that deficit and provide a more definitive portrait … Continue reading
Homelessness Interventions: Costs versus Benefits
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2018
What Homelessness Interventions Demonstrate Benefits that Outweigh the Costs?
Aging in Place With Permanent Supportive Housing
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2018
Permanent supportive housing (PSH) is effective at ending chronic homelessness. PSH should also be designed to accommodate and address accelerated aging experienced by homeless adults in order to help them age in place once they are housed.