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Category: Homelessness

Ebony Palmer and her young daughter in her apartment. Photo by Matt Tinoco/KPCC
Posted inCalifornia Dream

Pilot project: Housing homeless people cuts state’s health care burden

Avatar by Matt Tinoco, KPCC October 22, 2019October 22, 2019

A California pilot program aims to provide housing for vulnerable homeless people and saves taxpayer money. A RAND analysis found that for every dollar Los Angeles County invested in the program, it saved $1.20 in reduced health care and social service costs.

Posted inCalifornia Divide

Black people disproportionately homeless in California

by Kate Cimini October 5, 2019February 27, 2021
The feet of Mr. Murphy, who has been on Skid Row for a year. Outreach workers are not sure where he came from. Photos by Dan Morain for CALmatters
Posted inHealth

California’s homeless crisis all too often is a health crisis

Avatar by Guest Commentary September 15, 2019September 13, 2019
Mayors (from left to right) Faulconer, Garcetti, Schaaf and Steinberg and CALmatters reporter Laurel Rosenhall at a forum to discuss responses to California's homeless population.
Posted inCalifornia Dream, Homelessness, Housing

Big city mayors to California lawmakers on homelessness: Go bold

Avatar by Matt Levin November 16, 2018June 23, 2020
Cheryl Taylor talks about what it’s like to live on the streets of San Diego, among the California locales where empathy toward homelessness is an open question. Photo by Katie Schoolov
Posted inCalifornia Dream, Homelessness

Homelessness: I feel your pain, or do I?

Avatar by Amita Sharma, KPBS September 17, 2018June 23, 2020
Kaye, who asked that we not use her last name, receives a monthly rental subsidy from the City of Santa Monica as part of a pilot program to help seniors stay in their homes, July 11, 2018.
Posted inCalifornia Dream, Homelessness, Housing, The High Cost of Housing

Santa Monica offers cash to seniors to help with rent

Avatar by Amita Sharma, KPBS September 12, 2018June 23, 2020
Anti-poverty advocates say there is no consistent California transportation safety net to help struggling residents afford reliable transit. Photo via Metro-Los Angeles/Flickr.
Posted inCalifornia Dream, Homelessness, Poverty

How a transportation safety net could keep more people off the streets

Avatar by Meghan McCarty Carino, KPCC September 10, 2018June 23, 2020
Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan speaks with property owner Francisco Acosta in front of a vacant lot in West Oakland on Aug. 20, 2018. Kaplan authored a proposed tax on vacant properties to help ease homelessness in the city. Photo by Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED
Posted inCalifornia Dream, Homelessness, Housing

Could this tax on vacant properties help end homelessness?

Avatar by Farida Jhabvala Romero, KQED September 6, 2018June 23, 2020
Sean Kayode, outside the Next Door homeless shelter in San Francisco, is suing the city—saying he lost his means of food-delivery employment and his home when his car was impounded in March for having too many parking tickets. Photo by David Gorn for CALmatters
Posted inCalifornia Dream, Homelessness, Housing, Poverty

With thousands of Californians living in vehicles, lawsuit aims to stop cities from towing their homes

Avatar by David Gorn September 3, 2018June 23, 2020
Nereida locks up after finishing a Wednesday shift at the Los Angeles optometry shop where she works full time, Aug. 22, 2018.
Posted inCalifornia Dream, Economy, Homelessness, Poverty

Thousands of Californians are working while homeless, and many don’t want their bosses to know

Avatar by David Wagner, KPCC September 1, 2018June 23, 2020

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