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Mobilizing a Community-Academic Partnership to Provide DIY Handwashing Stations to Skid Row Residents During COVID-19
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2021
People experiencing homelessness are disproportionately more likely to have pre-existing health conditions and lack access to sanitary practices, such as handwashing, than housed people. These disparities make people experiencing homelessness more vulnerable to the coronavirus (COVID-19). Los Angeles’s Skid Row … Continue reading
Preventing Homelessness: Evidence-Based Methods to Screen Adults and Families at Risk of Homelessness in Los Angeles
California Policy Lab
Year: 2021
The overall homeless population in Los Angeles County continues to grow as inflows into homelessness outpace exits to housing. The key to preventing homelessness is to ensure scarce prevention resources are going to people who will become homeless without those … Continue reading
The relationship between quality of housing and quality of life: evidence from permanent supportive housing
Housing and Society
Year: 2021
State Medicaid expansion, coupled with financial incentives from alternative payment models, have fostered an increase in housing programs supported and implemented by hospitals and health systems. Permanent supportive housing (PSH) can improve patients’ health, quality of life (QOL) and wellbeing, … Continue reading
Do transitions in and out of homelessness relate to mental health episodes? A longitudinal analysis in an extremely disadvantaged population
Social Science & Medicine
Year: 2021
This paper studies the association between homelessness and mental health episodes focusing on episodes of depression, anxiety and other conditions (bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia, and post-traumatic stress disorder). Using panel data from the Australian Journeys Home survey, we investigate the … Continue reading
Safe Parking: Insights from a Review of National Programs
Center For Homeless Inquiries
Year: 2021
Safe parking programs are designed to provide a safe place for people sheltering in their vehicles to park without risk of a citation. Safe parking programs offer several on-site services, including restrooms, handwashing stations, charging stations, and case management services. … Continue reading
The Utilization of Hotels, Motels, and Single Room Occupancies for Homeless Service Delivery
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unparalleled acceleration of efforts to house homeless individuals in California, particularly those that are medically vulnerable due to their age or underlying health conditions (FEMA, 2020). These efforts have occurred at the state, … Continue reading
Cash Payments to People Experiencing Homelessness
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2021
Emerging studies have shown that unrestricted cash-transfer programs can effectively prevent homelessness and save more money than they cost. Cash transfer programs can be one-time payments to help avert a potential crisis and stabilize families or individuals or longer-term income … Continue reading
Foster Youth and Homelessness
Homelessness Policy Research Institute
Year: 2021
The goal of the foster care system in the United States is to place these children in a situation of permanency, either with their own family or with an adoptive family (Children’s Bureau, 2020) (Papovich, 2020). While most of the … Continue reading
Skid Row Power Now! A Participatory Co-design Project to Power up Digital Devices in Skid Row
10th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
Year: 2021
This case study describes the co-design of Charge ‘n Chill, a charging cart serving houseless residents of Skid Row. This project brought together community activists, Skid Row residents, and university researchers over the course of an 8-week intensive codesign workshop … Continue reading
Investigating Housing Models for Accelerating PSH Production: Year 1 Report
Abt Associates
Year: 2021
In collaboration with United Way and with philanthropic support from several funding members of the Home For Good Funders Collaborative, the University of Southern California’s Homeless Policy Research Institute contracted with Abt Associates and VIVA Consulting to conduct an evaluation … Continue reading