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Homelessness and housing news from the past week that you may have missed.

Homelessness and housing news from the past week that you may have missed.

Homelessness and housing news from the past week that you may have missed.

The Terner Center for Housing Innovation has issued a new report looking at the pressures that force extremely low-income households in the Bay Area to the edge of homelessness. Policy manager Ned Resnikoff looks at what the report has to say about how income disparities contribute to the region's crisis of housing affordability.

Policy manager Ned Resnikoff explains why housing people in "all those vacant apartments" is not a viable solution to homelessness. The homelessness rate is highest in the cities where rental vacancy rates are lowest. The homelessness crisis will not end without building more extremely low-income housing—and more housing in general.

Homelessness and housing news from the past week that you may have missed.

Homelessness and housing news from the past week that you may have missed.

The Atlantic published an article on a new strain of crystal meth said to be “worsening America’s homelessness problem.” Policy manager Ned Resnikoff examines how the piece showcases common misconceptions about homelessness.

Homelessness and housing news from the past week that you may have missed.

Over the weekend, Ned Resnikoff had an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle considering California’s homelessness crisis in light of its similarities to the climate crisis. One theme in this piece is the need for federal intervention. California has long been a leader among U.S. states on climate policy, and in recent years it has started to make significant progress in developing effective programs to prevent and end homelessness.

Beginning this week, policy manager Ned Resnikoff will be posting a weekly list of some housing and homelessness news that you might have missed.

Public policy academics Pamela Herd and Don Moynihan have an interesting brief in Health Affairs on how administrative burdens can harm the health of low-income people. Herd and Moynihan quite literally wrote the book on administrative burdens, so their work on the subject is always worth a look.