Monthly payments of $1,000 could get thousands of homeless people off the streets, researchers say latimes.com/california/sto… with quotes by Ben Henwood of HPRI & USC Social Work

Single most important policy that CA could enact. Convert state homeless funding to rental assistance. Doug Smith of ⁦Los Angeles Times⁩ reports: Monthly payments of $1,000 could get thousands of homeless people off the streets, researchers say latimes.com/california/sto…

Today we published #TheGap24 . There are fewer than 4 affordable and available rental homes for every 10 extremely low-income renters.

*This* is the root cause of homelessness and the urgent rental crisis that must be solved. Read: nlihc.org/gap

One week to go until our first webinar! Register now!

13 March 11am (CET) 'Latest U.S. Homelessness Data and What Europe Can Learn'

with Dennis Culhane and FreekSpinnewijn

Not to be missed! Register: bit.ly/49mEpcN

via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2024/03/09/bus…

Your guide to the California Senate candidates' views of housing and homelessness latimes.com/california/sto…

Thanks to the folks at Schwarzenegger Institute and other USC colleagues for a great conversation.

Interesting findings from Ben Henwood and co. at USC. They found that homeless people who were given $750 were less likely to be unsheltered after six months and able to meet more of their basic needs than a control group that got no money. Doug Smith latimes.com/california/sto…

This is aweeeeeeeeeee 🤗🤗

As the U.S. ages fast, more boomers will struggle with housing : NPR npr.org/2023/11/30/121…

Good to see prof O Sullivan presenting research on homelessness in EU in PETI Committee Press. There is no better expert for this task. Hopefully report will b followed by EP resolution on homelessness. Necessary & timely in run up to EU elections. Research work should not go wasted.

Commissioned study that will serve as basis for discussion can b found here👇.

Pity of stereotypical picture on the cover. Certainly not the choice of the excellent author Prof Eoin O Sullivan...

Homelessness is more than rough sleeping!

European Parliamentary Research Service

europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes…

📆 Join us next week for this fireside chat with Senator Mike Braun (R-IN) and Dennis Shea, and panel discussion with Dennis Culhane and Jennifer Molinsky moderated by Francis Torres Gonzalez.

Register now to learn more about seniors experiencing homelessness. eventbrite.com/e/aging-withou…

We're excited to announce the IPDLN Conference is heading to Chicago Sept 15-18, 2024. Hosts Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine/Institute for Artifical Intelligence in Medicine, Georgetown University, @UPenn will bring the conference to the US for the first time ever. Watch for news at ipdln.org. Abelkho Amy O'Hara Dennis Culhane

Useful new analysis by the Housing team The Pew Trusts

How Housing Costs Drive Levels of Homelessness pew.org/3E021FX via The Pew Trusts

A Journey from Homelessness to a Room of One’s Own newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

More old people are becoming homeless as fixed incomes don’t keep up with higher housing costs and other financial shocks; ‘not seen since the Great Depression.’ wsj.com/economy/housin…

A bold new federal experiment in giving renters cash vox.com/2023/9/12/2386… via Vox

“In terms of a moral imperative, it’s despicable to think we can’t do better. We’re not looking ahead where the demographics are going . . . and heading off a looming crisis of elder homelessness. It’s despicable.”
2Life Communities
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Unconditional cash transfers reduce homelessness | PNAS pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…. More evidence that cash transfers reduces homelessness. Should bolster arguments to expand access and depth of SSI program as a primary effort to reduce homelessness.