Search Research Catalogue
Aligning Housing with Climate Goals: The Importance of Measuring VMT
Terner Center for Housing and Innovation
Year: 2025
California has undertaken two challenging housing and climate goals: to build 2.5 million new homes by 2030 and to reduce climate pollution 40 percent by 2030.[1] Especially given that passenger travel represents the single largest source of climate pollution from California households, geographically defined transportation criteria are increasingly being … Continue reading
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
Annual Trends Among the Unsheltered in Three Los Angeles Neighborhoods: The Los Angeles Longitudinal Enumeration and Demographic Study (LA LEADS) 2023 Annual Report
RAND Corporation
Year: 2024
Despite substantial ongoing efforts to resolve homelessness in Los Angeles, data from Los Angeles County’s January 2023 point-in-time count found a 9 percent increase from the previous year in the estimated number of people experiencing homelessness countywide and a 10 … 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