The Research Accelerator advances policy research to end homelessness by leveraging Los Angeles County’s homelessness data and a network of researcher expertise.
Background
The Research Accelerator is a data enclave hosted by California Policy Lab at UCLA containing de-identified Homelessness Management Information System (HMIS) data for use by members of the Homelessness Policy Research Institute. Its purpose is to make HMIS data available to HPRI members working to solve homelessness in Los Angeles. HPRI is a collaborative of over thirty researchers and policymakers that advance equitable and culturally informed solutions to homelessness in Los Angeles County through fostering transformational partnerships between research, policy, and practice.
For more information about accessing the Research Accelerator, read this fact sheet.
Please submit all questions and project proposals to ResearchAccelerator@capolicylab.org.
Approved Research Accelerator projects
Hosted projects that are approved to use data from the Homelessness Research Accelerator are listed below (this table is sortable – click on the column headers).
| 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 | Christoper 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 |