Multnomah county's definitions of racial equity, cultural competency, and culturally specific and responsive services. The document is intended to guide contracting and procurement, but definitions given here can apply more generally.
After more than two years of health, economic, and social impacts from COVID-19 that amplified existing inequalities, an alarming trend surfaced in the 2022 Point-in-Time (PIT) Count numbers: a steep rise in homelessness among Latinos in the United…
This report describes a needs assessment of Latinx persons at-risk for or who are actively homeless in Los Angeles County. We conducted interviews with stakeholders (n = 24) who work in homeless services, research, and policy. Themes from these…
People of color or mixed race account for more than half of all people experiencing homelessness, despite comprising less than a quarter of the total population in the United States. What are the primary drivers of this severe racial concentration of…
Homeless Deaths Count is a community effort to collect comprehensive data on mortality among people experiencing homelessness across the United States.
This report serves to illustrate the state of research on rapid rehousing (in 2015), and includes a nice overview of what rapid re-housing is (with graphics), what things we know, and what remains to be researched.
This study takes the first systematic look at Continuums of Care for homeless people as they have developed in communities across the United States. It examines how development has been affected by the availability of federal funding for homeless…
The homeless population is aging; in the past few decades, the proportion of adults experiencing homelessness who are 50 and older has risen faster than other groups. This trend is expected to continue, with the proportion of people age 65 and older…
This Encampment Prioritization Tool is designed to help communities navigate the complex landscape of homelessness. By balancing the urgent need to address encampments with the chronic shortage of housing and shelter resources, along with health and…
Encampment resolution is a strategic approach focused on connecting unsheltered individuals to stable housing rather than displacing them through sweeps. This method employs evidence-based practices to connect people with housing solutions and…
Report and recommendations created by Los Angeles committee on Black people experiencing homelessness. Created over the course of 2018, with input from service providers, people with lived experience, and other experts. For a range of issues that…
This resource describes tiny homes in the U.S. and stewardship as a housing tenure or property relation that affords unhoused people access to land and space through co-management for individual and mutual benefit. The stewardship and co-management…
The California Department of Health Care Services awarded the Orange County Health Care Agency (HCA) a Homeless Mentally Ill Outreach and Treatment (HMIOT) grant in late 2018. The HCA partnered with Telecare to create intensive outreach and mobile…
This study investigated issues related to housing among low-income American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIANs) living in urban areas. Methods included interviews with staff from social service organizations serving Native Americans in 24 sampled…
National-level review of segregation in housing, in particular for low-income renters, and the status of HUD federal rulemaking and initiatives to combat this. Recommendations given at executive (i.e. rulemaking) and legislative level. Special…
