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Sacramento Briefing: CalAIM Housing Community Supports
California Health Care Foundation
March 12, 2025
Join CHCF in Sacramento on Wednesday, March 12, 2025 for a briefing about these supports and their importance for helping people move from homelessness to housing. The briefing will begin with an over...
News
Study Finds Just 37% of California Homeless People Are Regular Drug Users
Mercury News
March 10, 2025
A new UCSF BHHI study challenges common perceptions about homelessness and drug use in California, revealing that only 37% of surveyed unhoused Californians use drugs regularly, while 25% have never u...
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In Depth: The Cost of Criminalizing Homelessness
KTVU News
March 7, 2025
KTVU's Heather Holmes and Frank Mallicoat talk to Marc Dones, Policy Director of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, about the challenges unsheltered people face and what research says ab...
News
Study Shows Majority of Homeless People in CA Are Not Illegal Drug Users
KCBS Radio
February 28, 2025
Research from UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative reveals that most people experiencing homelessness in California are not illegal drug users—contrary to widespread public perception. The...
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Large Majority of Homeless People in California Are Not Illicit Drug Users, Study Finds
Los Angeles Times
February 27, 2025
A new UCSF BHHI study challenges misconceptions about drug use among people experiencing homelessness in California. While only 37% of homeless individuals regularly use illicit drugs, lifetime use is...
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LA’s Housing Crisis Is Trapping Domestic Violence Survivors
Los Angeles Public Press
February 27, 2025
Domestic violence is a major but often overlooked driver of homelessness in Los Angeles, with 44% of unhoused women citing it as the primary cause, according to a 2023 Urban Institute survey. Yet, LA’...
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How Common Is Illegal Drug Use Among People Who Are Homeless?
UCSF News
February 19, 2025
A groundbreaking UCSF BHHI study challenges common perceptions about drug use among people experiencing homelessness. Researchers found that less than half of this population regularly used drugs, wit...
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Housing Costs Are at Record Highs — and So Is Homelessness. Here’s How They Relate
Bankrate
January 27, 2025
In 2024, for the second year in a row, a record number of people in the U.S. experienced homelessness on a single night, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The ho...
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‘Life Got Too Expensive’: Miami Seniors Are Increasingly Falling Into Homelessness
Miami Herald
January 25, 2025
Rising cost of living, demographic trends have pushed many older South Florida seniors into homelessness. To blame are rising costs, particularly for housing, that outpace many older people’s fixed in...
Opinion
The National Decline in Overdose Deaths Is Leaving Black Communities Behind
Stat News
January 24, 2025
In this op-ed, Trina Johnson PhD, MSc, postdoctoral fellow with the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, highlights how the overdose death rates for white people had fallen dramatically by but...
News
Life Examined: Trauma, Homelessness, and Loss From the LA Wildfires.
KCRW
January 19, 2025
The scale of devastation wrought by the deadly wildfires in Pacific Palisades and Altadena has been unimaginable. Entire neighborhoods have been wiped out, homes reduced to smoldering ruins, and acres...
Opinion
Debrina Kawam's Death Proves Even Sleeping Is Risky for Homeless Americans
MSNBC
January 3, 2025
In this op-ed, Margot Kushel, MD, professor of medicine and director of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at UCSF, highlights the frequency people experiencing homelessness are exposed t...
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Homelessness Reaches a New High Nationally. How Does the Rate Compare to California?
Sacramento Bee
December 30, 2024
America’s homeless population swelled to its highest level in recorded history in 2024 according to an annual count of individuals living in emergency shelters, transitional housing or on the streets....
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What I Learned Reporting in Cities That Take Belongings From Homeless People
ProPublica
December 27, 2024
Over the past year, Nicole Santa Cruz, and her colleagues Ruth Talbot, Asia Fields, Maya Miller investigated how cities have sometimes ignored their own policies and court orders, which has resulted i...
News
Homeless Aid System Reveals Systemic Racial Bias
Rollingout
December 24, 2024
Since their introduction in 2009 under President Barack Obama, vulnerability surveys have aimed to assess the eligibility of homeless individuals for housing assistance. However, recent findings sugge...