Solving Homelessness and Serving High Needs Population
More than one-third of people who are experiencing homelessness in the United States live in California, despite the fact that California only has 12% of the nation’s overall population. The state, cities and counties urgently need solutions for preventing and addressing homelessness and Californians have identified homelessness as one of the most pressing public policy issues facing the state.
The California Policy Lab is working with state and local agencies to develop and evaluate evidence-based solutions to homelessness. CPL leverages expertise in data integration, predictive analytics, screening tools, and program evaluation to share real-time insights and build empirical evidence to improve outcomes for homeless individuals and families.
In 2021 CPL launched its Homelessness Prevention Community Advisory Board which is an essential part of CPL’s research process and will help to ensure that community needs are addressed and prioritized in all phases of research to promote community engagement in its homelessness prevention research agenda.
Focus Areas
Hosted homelessness projects
Homelessness-focused projects that CPL has hosted are listed below:
| Project Number | Project Name | All Team Members |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-202 | 2020-1 - Evaluation of Los Angeles Safe Parking Programs | Christopher Weare |
| 2022-203 | 2020-2- Latinx Use of HL Services | Melissa Chinchilla |
| 2022-205 | 2021-02 - Project 100 | Joelle Greene,Eva Chavez,Veronica Awan |
| 2022-206 | 2021-3 - Understanding HL using admin data | Michael Cassidy,Janey Currie |
| 2022-207 | 2021-4 - Fiscal Approach to HL Policy Eval | Jakob Brounstein,Pat Kline,John Wieselthier |
| 2022-208 | 2021-5 Estimation of Adult PEH using HMI | Soledad De Gregorio,Allan Broslawsky,Gary Painter,Patricia St. Clair,Randall Kuhn,Ben Henwood |
| 2022-209 | 2021-6 - Services not Sweeps | Christopher Giamarino |
| 2022-210 | 2021-7 Evaluation of the S25 Homelessness Initiative | Katharine Gale,Benjamin Muz,Kathryn Henderson |
| 2022-211 | 2022-2 - Urban Institute Housing Justice Project | Samantha Batko,Kaela Girod,Katharine Elder,William Pitkin,Ajjit Narayanan,Brendan Chen,Katherine Fallon,Mikaela Tajo |
| 2022-212 | 2022-1 - Older Adults | Scott Korinke,Honor Hayball,Jared Schachner,Irina Magidova |
| 2022-226 | Variable vs. Fixed Financial Assistance in Los Angeles Rapid Re-Housing | Till von Wachter,Janey Rountree,Kenneth Foster |
| 2022-232 | Estimating and Explaining Demographic Disparities in the Chronicity of Youth HL | Jared Schachner,Gary Painter |
| 2023-286 | Impacts of Permanent Supportive Housing Programs across Populations | Derek Christopher,Mark Duggan,Alejandro Saucedo,Bethany Carter,Olivia Martin,Jialu Streeter |
| 2023-293 | Identifying Effective Programs to End Homelessness among Heterogeneous Pops. | Minjae Yun,Soomi Lee |
| 2024-310 | Effective and Fair Resource-Constrained Decision Support | Angela Zhou,Mika Sumida |
| 2024-314 | Understanding Evictions to Improve Homelessness Prevention Programming in LA | Max Griswold,Sarah Hunter |
| 2024-332 | A contemporary typology of Veteran homelessness | Molly Brown,Amanda Barry |
| 2024-362 | Adaptation to Climate Change: Evidence from California Wildfires | Victoria Wang, Adriana Lleras-Muney |
| 2024-395 | Housing the Homeless: Impact of RRH on Crime, Health, & Homelessness |