Download or read book Challenges with Reducing Homelessness in Los Angeles County written by Jenny Chung (Graduate student) and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to the homeless crisis in Los Angeles County, taxpayers voted for Measure H in 2017 to fund homeless initiative programs and services, such as preventative measures, to combat homelessness. After two years, reports from the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) show that the number of homeless within certain homeless subpopulations have increased. This study will use a qualitative interview-based survey methodology to gather information from the various perspectives of the most vulnerable homeless subpopulations. This study aims to identify whether the implemented homeless programs and services are effective and offers recommendations for changes to policies to address the needs of the homeless youth and chronically homeless subpopulations.
Download or read book The Homeless in Los Angeles County written by Hamlet Karapetyan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homelessness is a wicked problem that is having a tremendous impact on Los Angeles County. According to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (2019), there are about 58,936 homeless individuals throughout the entire county. There are several speculations about how and why homelessness exists. The actions to combat homelessness have proven insufficient to eliminate the problem. This research project proposes to gather, organize and present data on this elusive and intractable problem in order to convince policymakers to take more different measures. Interviews will be conducted with experts to explore better strategies to combat homelessness. Surveys will then be presented to taxpayers to determine their level of support. This project asks: is Los Angeles County ready for radical change when it comes to the fight against homelessness? Radical change means newer initiates that are much more aggressive and demanding to bring forth rapid change at an accelerated pace unlike never seen before. The advocacy coalition framework based on Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith will help demonstrate how data produced from this research can be used towards going for a new direction to eliminate homelessness. This research will benefit Los Angeles County towards helping make this wicked problem a higher priority and will influence policy makers to bring forth better strategies to prevent homelessness.
Download or read book Strategies for Reducing Chronic Street Homelessness written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Addressing Homelessness in Los Angeles written by Brenda Gonzalez and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The County of Los Angeles faces a homelessness crisis, numbers continue to rise, and taxpayers' frustration increases. In recent years, there has been an increase in Hepatitis A, Typhus, and, most recently, COVID-19. This research paper identifies problems communities face surrounding homelessness in Los Angeles County. An in-depth analysis is provided to highlight the many causes of this complex societal problem. The research paper aims to evaluate if Los Angeles County has the capacity to deal with large homeless encampments. The purpose of this study is to describe the current efforts undertaken by Los Angeles County to address public health concerns. The research design uses both qualitative and quantitative methods of gathering data. Empirical data collection through survey collection and interviews will be used for the study. The study's findings will help better analyze the current policies surrounding public health efforts in Los Angeles County. The results will provide insight into how the implementation and planning of future policies can be improved.
Download or read book Homelessness in Los Angeles County written by Robert B. Flores and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout California and major urban centers across the United States, the country is experiencing unprecedented levels of homelessness. In Los Angeles County, specifically, leaders and public agencies alike are scrambling to find solutions to this major source of contention. An unstable housing market in addition to the lack of mental health and substance abuse treatment have been linked to the high increase in rates of homelessness. In the last decade, Los Angeles County has witnessed a sharp increase in homeless rates. According to the Los Angeles County Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA), there are over 66,000 homeless individuals in Los Angeles County (2020). Urban centers like San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego are facing ever challenging obstacles to tackle this complex problem. Some researchers argue that one of the root causes is the lack of affordable housing. Others argue that mental health and substance abuse are the driving force behind the homeless epidemic. This paper seeks to identify both of the major factors contributing to homelessness and also potential solutions. It also seeks to critique current policies that have exacerbated the problem and other policies that have failed. The research study proposed will incorporate a quantitative method in its design. The proposed study can be best described as explanatory research intended to better understand homelessness in Los Angeles County. The study will use a self-reported questionnaire for a non-numerical understanding of the phenomenon. It will incorporate quantitative data to better capture the personal attributes of the homeless. This type of data is generally difficult to capture. Therefore, this study's strength is its ability to gather data that would otherwise be strenuous to capture. In the last several years the state of California and the city and county of Los Angeles have passed new legislation that has directly or indirectly affected homelessness. The proposed study seeks to make a link between failed policies and the increase in homelessness. Homelessness has increased 13% in the last year (LAHSA, 2020). Clearly, legislation like Measure HHH has had little impact on Homelessness. Lastly, the study may point to future directions in public policy development and implementation. By studying the data captured legislators can consider the hurdles the homeless population faces.
Download or read book Homelessness in Los Angeles County written by Benjamin Marker and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research paper identifies the problems society faces surrounding homelessness in Los Angeles County, and provides analysis of the current homelessness reduction efforts in place. The research problem identifies the need to gain an understanding of how the homeless population views implementation of this strategic planning from their perspective. The research designed will be mostly qualitative, centered around an ethnography, during which the researcher spends extensive time alongside different demographics within the homeless population, collecting empirical data through participant observation. There will also be a quantitative element of analysis, as the numbers from the Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count will be evaluated to assess program effectiveness. Findings from the study will contribute to a better understanding of the success of homeless reduction efforts in Los Angeles County, and provide insight to how planning and implementation may be improved, through a ground level interpretation of the system's core users: people experiencing homelessness.
Download or read book Strategic Plans written by Adams Fei and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homelessness is a global issue and some of the wealthiest cities are overwhelmed with extreme poverty. There are approximately 47 thousand homeless people who are living on the streets or in shelters in Los Angeles County. The metropolitan area in downtown Los Angeles has the highest population of homelessness in the Los Angeles County (Kriegler, Berk, 2010). Most of homeless population suffers from physical and mental disorders (Piliavin, Sosin, Westerfelt, Matsueda, 1993). Some of them become homeless due to personal history such as immigration status or former prisons. In 2018, the average sale price of a Los Angeles County home is around $585,000, which prevents an individual or family from affording a home. Also when there is a lack of employment opportunities stability is challenged, which leads to people losing their homes. These facts alone represents the visible need to address the growing rate homelessness. All levels of government should allocate funds and collaborate on how to reduce homelessness in LA County by developing a strategic plan.
Download or read book Homelessness in California written by California. State Auditor (2013-) and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cities and Homelessness written by Joaquin Jay Gonzalez III and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homelessness in America's cities remains a growing problem. The homeless today face the same challenges as in years past: poverty, tenuous or no ties to family and friends, physical and mental health issues, and substance abuse. Compared to the 1950s to 1970s, more homeless are now sleeping on city streets versus in shelters or single room hotels. Homelessness rates are affected by economic trends, lack of equitable and inclusive healthcare and housing, decline in public assistance programs, and natural and man-made disasters. This collection of essays covers case studies, innovations, practices and policies of municipalities coping with homelessness in the 21st century.
Download or read book An Analysis of Housing Policies in Addressing Homelessness in Los Angeles written by Jose Negrete (Graduate student) and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homelessness has become a complex social challenge gaining national and international attention. Scholars, practitioners, and policymakers have prescribed various policy needs addressing different dimensions of homelessness. Of these approaches, the need for additional housing has come to the foreground of the public policy environment. Housing policies are not a new fixture of government intervention. Instead, these policies have been around for decades changing in nature and response. As the topic of homelessness has grown in scope, so too has massive investments in the local, state, and federal levels of government to uplift people out of homelessness through the development of housing. Even with the up tick in investments to build housing, Los Angeles continues to experience rising numbers of people experiencing homelessness. To understand if housing policies are effective in reducing homelessness, a mixed-methods research approach has been designed to analyze the extent to which housing policies are addressing homelessness from the perspectives of those experiencing homelessness through an ethnography. Homelessness remains a complex social issue that requires pragmatic approaches to identifying underlying challenges in housing policy to address homelessness.
Download or read book Public Management written by David Rayford and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research paper identifies the challenges for public and private sector managers working in collaboration to provide public service to diverse homeless, vulnerable populations in Los Angeles County. The research will help identify the problems that nonprofits, government entities, public and private sector managers face when dealing with collaborative networks that take on the social issues of individuals and families experiencing homelessness. The research design will be comprised of qualitative and quantitative data utilizing a vulnerable population theoretical framework and common ground model analysis to analyze how the public and private sectors can work together in better serving the diverse homeless, vulnerable populations in Los Angeles County. Also, data from the Los Angeles Homeless Service Authorities (LAHSA) greater Los Angeles annual homeless count and the Los Angeles Continuum of Care Homeless Management Information System (LACoC HMIS) will be utilized to evaluate and assess the effects of the housing and service programs that are being provided to homeless, vulnerable populations. This research will further provide recommendations that can be used by nonprofits, government entities, and non - governmental organizations to become more effective in collaborative networks that cater to diverse racial and ethnic homeless vulnerable populations in Los Angeles County and other managers in communities that participate in cross-sector leadership techniques.
Download or read book The Increasing Statistics of Homelessness in Los Angeles written by Tifarra Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homelessness affects everyone, no matter their region, family status, gender, or racial or ethnic group. The County of Los Angeles currently faces an epidemic of homelessness as its population continues to grow. Legislators, policymakers, and citizens have been working together to solve this problem, but it still exists, which has left people to conclude that the approach is inadequate. Yet new techniques have not surfaced. Therefore, the problem may lie in finding more effective and efficient solutions. In this research project, I analyze the current policies and measures and gather, organize, and present data on improving them and undertaking new ones. Interviews and surveys are conducted with homelessness experts and citizens to explore better strategies for alleviating homelessness. I also seek citizens' support in solving this problem. This paper focuses on the causes of increasing homelessness and on the difficulty of finding more efficient and effective solutions to the problem. This research will help Los Angeles County look at homelessness from a different angle and encourage policymakers to draft new strategies to fight it.
Download or read book Homeless Families and Children in Los Angeles County written by Carole Chan and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Housing for Health written by Sarah Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research brief summarizes the findings of a report on Los Angeles County’s Housing for Health program and its effects on county costs and on the physical and mental health of people experiencing homelessness.
Download or read book Homeless in LA written by Patrick Burns and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Meeting the Needs of California s Homeless written by Commission on California State Government Organization and Economy and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Homeless in Los Angeles County written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
