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A Data-based Re-design of Housing Supports and Services for Aging Adults who Experience Homelessness
This report examines health services use and population dynamics among the aging homeless population in Los Angeles. Evidence suggests that adverse health outcomes lead to homelessness, and the conditions related to homelessness lead to or exacerbate a range of health problems
Topics: Health, Homelessness, Housing, Low-income, Research, West Coast
Shared by Housing Is
on Apr 11, 2019 0
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The #RealCollege survey is the nation’s largest annual assessment of basic needs security among college students. The survey, which specifically evaluates access to affordable food and housing, began in 2015 under the Wisconsin HOPE Lab. This report describes the results of the #RealCollege survey administered at nearly half of the schools in the California Community College system in the fall of 2016 and 2018.
Topics: Homelessness, Low-income, Post-secondary, Research, West Coast, Youth
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on Mar 13, 2019 0
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Last month, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to dedicate $5 million to preventing housing discrimination and to develop an ordinance to protect housing choice voucher holders from source of income discrimination. The supervisors have until May to draft the ordinance’s language and have not yet developed a timeline for enacting it, but these actions are a step toward expanding voucher holders’ housing options.
Topics: Housing, Legislation & Policy, Low-income, Racial inequalities, West Coast
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on Mar 13, 2019 0
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The California Homeless Youth Project (HYP) is a research and policy initiative that highlights the issues and challenges faced by unaccompanied young people who are homeless or lack stable housing. This website provides state and local policymakers and others with information and policy resources specific to unaccompanied homeless youth, with a focus on young people in California.
Topics: Education, Homelessness, Housing, Legislation & Policy, Research, West Coast
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on Mar 5, 2019 0
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Denver’s expansion of supportive housing through the Denver Supportive Housing Social Impact Bond Initiative is beginning to pay off for the city of Denver, its homeless residents, and a group of investors banking on social impact. This fact sheet highlights interim results of the program.
Topics: Housing, Research, Supportive housing, West Coast
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on Dec 12, 2018 0
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This fact sheet describes how a landlord may legally prohibit smoking in common spaces and individual units, and explains how to implement a smokefree policy in compliance with the rent control law, where applicable. It also includes options for addressing possible enforcement and compliance issues that may arise once a policy is in place.
Topics: Family engagement, Health, Housing, Low-income, Smoke-free, West Coast
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on Jul 13, 2018 0
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This guide is intended to provide information to public health department staff and advocates about the many public agencies that make policy decisions and implement projects related to the physical environment.
Topics: Child welfare, Community development, Education, Exercise, Green, Health, Housing, Legislation & Policy, Place-based, Safety, Smoke-free, Stability, Substance abuse, West Coast
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on Jul 13, 2018 0
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It adds to the growing body of evidence that addressing homelessness saves money elsewhere.
Topics: Cost effectiveness, Criminal justice, Health, Healthy homes, Homelessness, Housing, Legislation & Policy, Place-based, Preventative care, Research, Stability, West Coast
Shared by Housing Is
on Jul 5, 2018