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Single-Family Zoning in California: A Statewide Analysis
Othering & Belonging Institute
Year: 2024
This report is the final and culminating report of a six year investigation into the extent, correlates, and putative effects of single-family-only residential zoning in California. This research project emerged out of a separate, multi-year examination of the nature and … Continue reading
Sustained mental health and functional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Black and White Veterans with psychosis or recent homelessness
Journal of Psychiatric Research
Year: 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately impacted marginalized populations including Black Americans, people with serious mental illness, and individuals experiencing homelessness. Although the double disadvantage hypothesis would suggest that individuals with multiple minoritized statuses would experience worse psychosocial impacts from the pandemic, … Continue reading
Creating Authentic, Effective Partnerships Between Organizations and Lived Experts: A Toolkit
Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative
Year: 2024
This toolkit offers guidance for researchers, advocacy groups, non-profit organizations, government agencies and others interested in, or currently engaging in, meaningful community-engaged work. It presents BHHI’s guide to forming and sustaining meaningful, authentic, and effective partnerships between organizations and lived … Continue reading
Fair Housing and Why It Matters to Ending Homelessness
National Alliance to End Homelessness
Year: 2024
The Fair Housing Act is our nation’s primary fair housing law. On April 11, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, known as the federal Fair Housing Act. The law was … Continue reading
Basic Income Grants to Reduce Homelessness in Los Angeles
Year: 2024
Although serious mental illness (SMI) and substance use disorders (SUD) are more prevalent among unhoused people, it is wrong to assume that these conditions are the sole cause of their homelessness. In Los Angeles County, about 95.3% of adults with … Continue reading
Draft: Guaranteed Basic Income and Homelessness Landscape Analysis
Year: 2024
This landscape analysis delves into cash transfer and guaranteed income programs, their histories, and current pilot implementation. The brief provides context for why cash transfers and guaranteed income programs can be valuable in supporting vulnerable populations, such as the unhoused … Continue reading
Community-level Predictors of Doubled-up Homelessness
Journal of Urban Affairs
Year: 2024
Existing research has examined the community-level factors associated with sheltered and unsheltered homelessness in the United States, generally finding that housing, labor market, and social safety net factors have significant associations with geographic variation in homelessness. Some definitions of homelessness … Continue reading
Supporting Women of Color Experiencing Homelessness as Individuals in Los Angeles
Urban Institute
Year: 2024
One in five people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County are women facing homelessness as individuals, meaning without a partner or children, and most of them are women of color. These numbers are growing. Between 2015 and 2022, the overall number of … Continue reading
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