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Busting Homeless Myths: Q&A With a California Researcher
The Christian Science Monitor
July 13, 2023
California harbors 30% of the United State's homeless population, despite being home to 12% of the nation's population. A new study released by UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative tries t...
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What UCSF’s Statewide Homelessness Study Found Out About the Causes of California’s Crisis
KQED Forum
July 12, 2023
It’s a common belief about homeless people in California: they move here from other places because of the state’s tolerance, mild weather, and generous services. But according to a recent UCSF study, ...
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What Homelessness Is Really Like
Slate
July 12, 2023
California is home to 12% of the United State's population, but is home to nearly one-third of the nation’s people experiencing homelessness. A landmark study by the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Hous...
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California Has Spent Billions to Fight Homelessness. The Problem Has Gotten Worse
CNN
July 11, 2023
California invested $17.5 billion over four years to combat homelessness. However, despite the investment, there has been an increase in the number of people experiencing homelessness across the state...
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Who’s Most Likely to Become Unhoused in California? New Study Provides Insights
PBS News Weekend
July 8, 2023
30 percent of homeless population lives in California. A comprehensive new study finds half of all unhoused adults in California are older than 50 years of age, and that people of color are disproport...
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What a Landmark New Study on Homelessness Tells Us
Vox
July 5, 2023
Understanding the experiences of people experiencing homelessness is logistically difficult. The UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative conducted an ambitious study, where researchers sought...
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What Does California’s Homeless Population Actually Look Like?
The New Yorker
July 2, 2023
Many people talk about California’s homeless community as a monolith, yet the state has distinct homeless populations. The makeup of California's homeless population is more varied than the public ass...
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These Researchers Lived Through Homelessness. Now They’ve Analyzed it
48hills
June 30, 2023
For the California Statewide Study on People Experiencing Homelessness, the largest study on homelessness in California since 1996, the research team included people who were formerly or are currently...
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California Study of Homelessness | Insight
CapRadio
June 26, 2023
In the largest representative study of homelessness in California since the mid-1990s, the California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness provides policy recommendations and demystifie...
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Injury Patterns and Hospital Admission After Trauma Among People Experiencing Homelessness
JAMA Network Open
June 23, 2023
 Traumatic injury is a major cause of morbidity for people experiencing homelessness (PEH), however, injury patterns and subsequent hospitalization among PEH have not been studied on a national scale....
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‘This Could Never Happen to Me’: Statewide Study of Homelessness Challenges Narrative Around Housing Crisis
NBC Los Angeles
June 23, 2023
The California Statewide Study of People Experiencing Homelessness “paints a representative picture” of homelessness and suggests policies backed by evidence, said Dr. Tiana Moore, the Policy Director...
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How Many of California’s Homeless Residents Are From Out of State?
The Mercury News
June 22, 2023
A comprehensive new study finds the vast majority of the California's unhoused residents lived in the state before losing their housing. The goal of the report was to take a systematic approach to und...
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New Study Says High Housing Costs, Low Incomes Are Pushing Californians Into Homelessness
KTLA
June 22, 2023
Homeless people in California are already a vulnerable group, often struggling with poor health, trauma and deep poverty before they lose their housing. Lead investigator of the new study, Margot Kush...
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‘What help?’ Lessons from California's Largest Homeless Study in Decades
San Francisco Chronicle
June 21, 2023
California is home to 12% of the United State's population, but makes up to half of all the country's unsheltered population. In this podcast episode of Fifth & Mission, host Cecilia Lei speaks with M...
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What’s Causing Homelessness in California?
NBC Bay Area
June 20, 2023
Researchers at UCSF just released the findings of a statewide study that’s the most comprehensive look at homelessness in nearly three decades. NBC Bay Area’s Raj Mathai spoke to Margot Kushel, MD, th...
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4 Charts That Explain How People Slide Into Homelessness
TIME
June 20, 2023
A large new study, conducted by the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative asked people experiencing homelessness from all over California about what would have helped them avoid losing thei...
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New Study Says High Housing Costs, Low Income Push Californians Into Homelessness
KTVU
June 20, 2023
People experiencing homelessness in California are already a vulnerable group, often struggling with poor health, trauma, and deep poverty before losing their housing. Margot Kushel, MD, the study's p...
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Adding Affordable Housing Is ‘Essential’ to Fixing California’s Homelessness Crisis, Study Finds
LAist
June 20, 2023
There is a massive shortage of affordable housing for people with very low incomes in California. Only 24 units of housing are affordable for every 100 extremely low income households in California, c...