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‘Waiting List to Nowhere’: Homelessness Surveys Trap Black Men on the Streets
Washington Post
December 23, 2024
Vulnerability questionnaires were created to determine how likely a person is to get sick and die while experiencing homelessness, and the system has been widely adopted during the past decade to help...
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Safe Parking Sites Offer a New Option in LA County
Spectrum News 1
December 19, 2024
The first safe parking site in Los Angeles County opened up November 2024 in the Crenshaw neighborhood. People living in RV's around LA now have the opportunity to move with their oversized vehicles i...
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Homeless Woman in Labor Cited for Violating Camping Ban
Louisville Public Media
December 19, 2024
Body camera footage of pregnant homeless woman puts Kentucky's street camping ban in the spotlight. Kentucky is among several states that passed bans on street camping and it recently got a glimpse of...
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More Californians are Freezing to Death — and Many are Older Homeless People
KFF Health News
December 13, 2024
A growing number of people, many of them older and homeless, are freezing to death during winter. In 2023, 166 Californians died from hypothermia, double the number who died in 2015. People who experi...
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Inside America's Homeless Encampment Sweeps
WBUR
December 12, 2024
More than 650,000 people experienced homelessness on one night in January 2024, up 12% from 2022. In this episode of On Point, host Meghna Chakrabarti speaks with Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica reporte...
Videos
Webinar: Election 2024: What Does it Mean for Homelessness in California and Beyond?
December 11, 2024
The UCSF Benioff Homelessness & Housing Initiative held a webinar to explore the implications of the 2024 election for homelessness on the West Coast and beyond. Margot Kushel, MD, moderates a convers...
Press Release
Press Release
Statement by UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative Director Dr. Margot Kushel on the Potential Impact of the 2024 Election on Housing Justice
Benioff Homelessness & Housing Initiative
November 15, 2024
As the nation anticipates shifts in homelessness policy and funding following the 2024 election, it is more important than ever to ground our responses in evidence and compassion. Homelessness is solv...
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Protecting Unhoused Patients from the Harms of Encampment Sweeps
California Healthcare Foundation
November 8, 2024
Since the US Supreme Court ruled in the case of City of Grants Pass v. Johnson in June 2024, there has been an increase in the number of encampment sweeps. After the ruling, Governor Newsom of Califor...
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Redemption Road
HOMELAND
October 28, 2024
Angelenos exiting the carceral system often fall into homelessness due to barriers to housing and employment. In this episode of HOMELAND, a 10-episode series that brings clarity to the homelessness c...
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The Pursuit of Peace
HOMELAND
October 21, 2024
Substance use and homelessness have become synonymous in recent years. But what is the actual relationship between the two? Does problematic substance use cause homelessness or does homelessness incre...
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A Beautiful Mind
HOMELAND
October 18, 2024
As the homeless crisis has deepened in cities across the country, many have pointed to untreated mental health as a root cause of the crisis. But what is the relationship between mental health and hom...
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Los Angeles’ $22-Billion Homelessness Problem Gives Leaders a Choice: Double Down or Change Strategies
Los Angeles Times
October 16, 2024
City of Los Angeles officials are finally confronting a question that has seemed too big to answer: How much would it actually cost to get every person living on the street today indoors and make sure...
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Experience of Violence During Homelessness
JAMA Internal Medicine
October 14, 2024
This research letter discusses the experience of violence during homelessness, its impact on health, and recommendations for intervention. In the California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Home...
Videos
Webinar: Unsheltered Homelessness: A Solutions Oriented Approach
September 25, 2024
Most people experiencing homelessness in California do so in unsheltered settings, such as outdoors or in vehicles. This webinar is about the causes and consequences of unsheltered homelessness. Margo...
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Housing Instability Patterns Among Low-Income, Urban Black Young Adults in California and Associations With Mental Health Outcomes: Baseline Data From a Randomized Waitlist-Controlled Trial
BMC Public Health
September 13, 2024
Deep-rooted racial residential segregation and housing discrimination have given rise to housing disparities among low-income Black young adults in the US. In this study, researchers aimed to illumina...
Press Release
UCSF BHHI Brief Spotlights the Experiences of Californians in Unsheltered Settings
September 12, 2024
The University of California, San Francisco Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative (BHHI) today released a topic brief that sheds new light on the 78% of all Californians experiencing homelessnes...
Topic Brief
Unsheltered Homelessness
September 12, 2024
This topic brief examines who experiences unsheltered homelessness, how they lost their housing, their experiences during homelessness, and barriers to regaining housing. The findings highlight the ur...
Toolkit
Encampment Prioritization Tool
September 12, 2024
Our Encampment Prioritization Tool is designed to help communities navigate the complex landscape of homelessness. By balancing the urgent need to address encampments with the chronic shortage of hous...