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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...
Toolkit
Encampment Resolution Guide
September 12, 2024
Encampment resolution is a strategic approach focused on connecting unsheltered individuals to stable housing rather than displacing them through sweeps. This method employs evidence-based practices t...
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...
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Novel Methods to Construct a Representative Sample for Surveying California’s Unhoused Population: The California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness
American Journal of Epidemiology
September 11, 2024
Existing literature on people experiencing homelessness (PEH) draws on non-representative samples from service providers, populations with comorbidities, or areas with disproportionately high sheltere...
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Some Employed Homeless Americans Live in Their Cars
Fox Business
September 5, 2024
The gap between wages and housing prices has pushed more workers into homelessness. Increasing the number of affordable housing units is key. Margot Kushel, MD, director of the UCSF Benioff Homelessne...
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Emboldened by Supreme Court, California Turns to Police in Homeless Crisis
Reuters
September 5, 2024
Since the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson on June 28th loosed clearance rules, 12 California cities or counties have passed camping bans, while another nine are consi...
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Association of Homelessness with Before Medically Advised Discharge After Surgery
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
September 1, 2024
Before medically advised (BMA) discharge is associated with higher rates of readmission and death in other settings. In this study, researchers used multivariable logistic regression to evaluate the a...
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Homelessness Experts Weigh In on Newsom’s Executive Order on Encampments
KTLA
August 26, 2024
Governor Gavin Newsom’s executive order allowing state and local officials to dismantle homeless encampments has drawn mixed reactions from homelessness experts within California. he executive order c...
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California's Homeless Crisis: Uncovering the Truth
Invisible People
August 23, 2024
California’s homeless crisis is reaching unprecedented levels. In this podcast episode of Invisible People, Margot Kushel, MD, Division Chief of the UCSF Action Research Center for Health Equity, and ...
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Continued Homelessness and Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults
JAMA Network Open
August 15, 2024
Depression is common in adults experiencing homelessness. In this cohort study, researchers examined the association between residential status and depressive symptoms in adults 50 years or older expe...
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Unraveling the Misinformation about Homelessness in California
KPFA Letters & Politics
August 12, 2024
In this episode of KPFA Letters and Politics, host Mitch Jeserich spoke with Margot Kushel, MD, director of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, about the myths and misinformation abo...