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Slashing Bay Area Homelessness Would Cost $9.5 Billion, Report Says
What would it cost to dramatically reduce homelessness in the Bay Area? About $9.5 billion on top of current spending, according to…
Do Homelessness Prevention Programs Work?
A new paper provides the first evidence from a randomized controlled trial isolating the impact of financial assistance to prevent…
Solving homelessness requires more evidence and less politics
The increasingly worrisome crisis of homelessness in our nation has focused media and policy attention on homelessness policy. Unfortunately, notably absent from…
Embracing Humanity in Our Approach to Studying Homelessness
As a board member of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative (BHHI) Lived Expertise Advisory Board that played a major role in the…
New 6-year randomized control trial: prevention is a proven solution to keeping families from becoming homeless
For years, our homelessness crisis has been fueled by a troubling trend: for every homeless family we connect to housing,…
Do homelessness prevention programs work? Santa Clara County-based study says yes
Finding: Emergency financial assistance reduces homeless peril for at-risk families The adage “prevention is better than cure” applies not just…
First Study Of Its Kind Shows Financial Aid Can Prevent Homelessness
For people on the verge of homelessness, emergency financial assistance offers great promise, according to a randomized control study done…
These Researchers Lived Through Homelessness. Now, They’ve Analyzed It.
The latest study of unhoused Californians made headlines, even though its findings are already considered common knowledge among people engaged with the…
A New Study Paints a Different Picture of Homelessness in California
Researchers found that homeless people in California were often living in poverty within the state, until they suddenly lost their…
