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Opinion: Accounting for Homelessness Takes More Than a Homelessness Count
San Jose Mercury News
June 15, 2022
In this op-ed, Margot Kushel, MD, Tomiqua Moss, and Jen Loving explain how scaling evidence-based solutions to prevent and end homelessness can yield tangible results. They characterize the underlying...
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More People Experiencing Homelessness Are Living in Cars Around Las Vegas
KNPR Nevada Public Radio
June 8, 2022
This radio program takes an in-depth look at how more people experiencing homelessness in Las Vegas are now living in vehicles. UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative Postdoctoral Scholar Gr...
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Murders of People Experiencing Homelessness Are on the Rise
Crosstown
June 8, 2022
In Los Angeles, 85 people experiencing homelessness were murdered last year—the highest number ever recorded, according to LA Police Department data. Margot Kushel, MD, director of the UCSF Benioff Ho...
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A Community-Based Tobacco Cessation Program for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness
Addictive Behaviors
June 1, 2022
People experiencing homelessness (PEH) have a high rate of tobacco use. Researchers examined factors associated with cigarette consumption and quit attempts. They found having an encounter with staff ...
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Brief Report: Heterogeneous Preferences for Care Engagement Among People With HIV Experiencing Homelessness or Unstable Housing During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
June 1, 2022
People living with HIV (PLH) experiencing homelessness or unstable housing have lower rates of viral suppression compared to people who are housed. In 2020, only 20% of PLH experiencing homelessness i...
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Panel: Lack of Housing Is Main Cause for San Jose Homelessness
San Jose Spotlight
May 31, 2022
The lack of affordable housing, systemic racism, and weak safety nets are the leading causes of Silicon Valley’s homeless crisis. UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative Director, Margot Kush...
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How Many People Are Homeless in San Francisco? Data Reveals a Worsening Crisis
San Francisco Chronicle
May 9, 2022
This news article reports on varying methods quantifying homelessness in San Francisco. These metrics — the PIT count, city data, and others — are often mere snapshots of the whole picture, or require...
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Understanding the Association Between Frequent Emergency Department Use and Jail Incarceration: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
Academic Emergency Medicine
May 1, 2022
The number of individuals incarcerated in the United States has increased since the 1970s. Frequent emergency department (ED) use and incarceration can both be driven by underlying structural factors ...
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Temporary stays with housed family and friends among older adults experiencing homelessness: Qualitative findings from the HOPE HOME study
Qualitative Social Work
May 1, 2022
Recently the demographic characteristics of people experiencing individual homelessness have changed; more individuals over the age of 50 are experiencing homelessness. BHHI researchers examined the m...
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Community Supervision, Housing Insecurity, & Homelessness
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
May 1, 2022
In the United States there has been a simultaneous rise of mass incarceration and homelessness. Both of these phenomena are driven by the same structural factors, housing being the most important. Res...
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Health Risk Associated with Residential Relocation Among People who Inject Drugs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA: a Cross Sectional Study
BMC Public Health
April 25, 2022
In this cross-sectional study, researchers studied the association between residential relocation and health outcomes in people who inject drugs (PWID). PWID are at an increased risk of low socioecono...
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A Rising Tally of Lonely Deaths on the Streets
New York Times
April 18, 2022
This New York Times article reports on increasing deaths among people experiencing homelessness and highlights a recent JAMA Network Open study from UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative re...
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News Roundup - April 7
Ned Resnikoff
April 7, 2022
Health impacts of encampment sweeps, racial inequities in harm reduction, and more homelessness and housing news from the past week that you may have missed.
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Anti-racism in Medicine – Housing Is Health: Racism and Homelessness
Clincial Problem Solvers
April 5, 2022
This podcast episode highlights homelessness’ impact on health, the structural and racialized nature of homelessness, and practical interventions to address housing inequities. Margot Kushel, MD, dire...
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News Roundup - March 31
Ned Resnikoff
March 31, 2022
The asset economy, social housing, and more homelessness and housing news from the past week that you may have missed.
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From the Labor Question to the Housing Question
The Nation
March 28, 2022
Ned Resnikoff, policy manager for the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, wrote about the relationship between the asset economy and homelessness.