The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) today released a study by the Economic Roundtable that provides even more evidence that providing permanent supportive housing for the chronically homeless can ultimately provide public cost savings. These savings have been documented in research in cities across the nation, with the early work being done by DennisContinue reading “Evidence from Los Angeles that housing the homeless saves money”
Category Archives: Affordable Housing
Los Angeles Foreclosures
We hear nearly everyday about the growing number of foreclosures in our country, particularly in boom-and-bust markets like Los Angeles. This chart provides a historical picture that shows what a unique moment we are in. In the last LA housing bust during the early 1990s, foreclosures doubled from under 15,000 in 1992 to over 33,000Continue reading “Los Angeles Foreclosures”
Homeless children: a national disgrace
The National Center on Family Homelessness NCFH today released a report outlining the extent of homelessness among children in the U.S. In America’s Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child Homelessness, NCFH researchers found: More than 1.5 million children are homeless annually in the United States—one in every 50 American children. 42 percent of homelessContinue reading “Homeless children: a national disgrace”
Bill Pitkin 