Policy Category: Homelessness
Stretched to Capacity: The Challenges Facing California’s Homelessness Service Providers
Author: Ryan Finnigan In recent years, nonprofit homelessness organizations in California have substantially increased the breadth and scale of the…
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How Homelessness Programs Are Serving Four Populations in California
California’s affordable housing shortage and enduring poverty are major drivers of the state’s homelessness crisis,1 but efforts to resolve or…
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Five Recent Trends in Homelessness in California
This report, the first in a series, describes the number and characteristics of people experiencing homelessness in California and documents…
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Permanent Supportive Housing as a Solution to Homelessness: The Critical Role of Long-Term Operating Subsidies
This study aims to quantify the costs of operating PSH—including both the costs of managing the property and providing supportive…
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Using Emergency Housing Vouchers to Address Homelessness
This analysis is published as part of the Housing Crisis Research Collaborative. Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic increased the urgency to…
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Shelter and Safety Among People Experiencing Homelessness During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author: Ryan Finnigan, Senior Research Associate Read the full paper here.
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California’s Homekey Program: Unlocking Housing Opportunities for People Experiencing Homelessness
Authors: Carolina Reid Ryan Finnigan Shazia Manji Graduate Student Researchers: Hayden Rosenberg Sam Wilkinson Read the full report here.…
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Addressing Homelessness Through Hotel Conversions
Read the full report here. Authors: Carolina Reid, Faculty Research Advisor Shazia Manji, Research Assistant Hayden Rosenberg, Graduate…
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On the Edge of Homelessness: The Vulnerability of Extremely Low-Income Households in the Bay Area
This paper presents data on the demographic, housing, and labor market characteristics of ELI households in the 9-county Bay Area…
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