Search Research Catalogue
Increasing Latino Homelessness—What’s Happening, Why, and What to Do About It
Year: 2023
After more than two years of health, economic, and social impacts from COVID-19 that amplified existing inequalities, the 2022 Point-in-Time Count numbers revealed a steep rise in homelessness among Latinos in the United States. This brief analyzes data from the … Continue reading
Barriers to leasing Emergency Housing Vouchers
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2023
Emergency Housing Vouchers (EHVs) were created to assist households impacted by the effects of COVID-19. Its purpose is to provide housing stability to families or individuals at risk of homelessness, unhoused, or fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence. The … Continue reading
Homeless Deaths Count
Year: 2022
Homeless Deaths Count is a community effort to collect comprehensive data on mortality among people experiencing homelessness across the United States. Homeless Deaths Count has two simple goals: 1) To count the number of people experiencing homelessness who die in … Continue reading
T.R.U.S.T.: A guide to long term affordable housing
Year: 2022
This guide to community land trusts (CLTs) was developed as a product of the USC Initiative to Eliminate Homelessness, to serve as an addendum to the Housing Typologies Toolkit produced in 2018. A team of three USC Urban Planning Interns … Continue reading
COVID-19 Recession: Young Adult Food Insecurity, Racial Disparities, and Correlates
Journal of Adolescent Health
Year: 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted devastating health, social, and economic effects globally. This study examines the experiences of young adults in the United States with respect to food insecurity during the pandemic and factors associated with higher and lower risk … Continue reading
Big Moves for Housing and Economic Security
Year: 2022
The Big Moves are designed to increase housing and economic security for people with extremely low incomes in the Bay Area. They were developed with an eye to what is needed to meaningfully address homelessness and poverty, what opportunities are … Continue reading
Urban American Indians and Alaska Natives Experiencing Homelessness in California: Strategies for Addressing Housing Insecurities and Substance Use Disorder
California Department of Health Care Services
Year: 2022
The California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) funded the USC Keck School of Medicine, a Tribal Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) Project partner, to lead a unique opportunity to conduct a statewide needs assessment among urban and rural American Indian and … Continue reading
Ready to Rent: Administrative Decisions and Poverty Governance in the Housing Choice Voucher Program
American Sociological Review
Year: 2022
Sociological studies of poverty governance investigate how state actors manage marginalized populations, regulate their participation in social institutions, and reform their behavior through systems of punishment and rewards. Research in this area considers a range of institutions involved in managing … Continue reading
Policing Doesn’t End Homelessness. Supportive Housing Does.
Urban Institute
Year: 2022
Unsheltered homelessness is on the rise amid a systemic and widespread lack of affordable housing, supportive services, and livable wages. As the housing crisis worsens, homelessness has become increasingly visible and, as a result, increasingly dominant as a public concern. … Continue reading
Acceptability of a mobile sensing application to characterize community integration among homeless-experienced veterans
Journal of Community Psychology
Year: 2022
Mobile sensing applications that collect active, Ecological Momentary Assessment data, and passive, Global Positioning System data provide reliable, longitudinal assessments of community integration. Ensuring their acceptability by vulnerable populations is warranted. Acceptability-related perceptions of a mobile sensing application were gathered via … Continue reading