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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
Beyond the Bias: Realities of Homelessness in California
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2024
The homelessness crisis in California and throughout the United States is the direct consequence of inadequate housing policy, and yet, homelessness is consistently misrepresented as the result of poor personal decisions made by individuals in extreme poverty. The myths about … Continue reading
Understanding CalAIM Implementation Across California
UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation
Year: 2024
In January 2022, California’s Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) and its local partners began the implementation of California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM). DHCS describes CalAIM as “a long-term commitment to transform Medi-Cal, making the program more equitable, coordinated, … Continue reading