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20260614 Council of Economic Advisors - housing deregulation in Los Angeles would reduce homelessness by 40 percent.rtf
20260706 Demand and supply chart for homes todo1.rtf
20260707 After adjusting for January temperature, home prices, and poverty rates, right-to-shelter places have average rates of sheltered homelessness over three times as high as places without a right to shelter.rtf
20260707 Among people who entered shelter in 2017 who were not already homeless, 51 percent had previously been staying with family or friends (HUD 2018a). Homelessness may result when these social ties run out.rtf
20260707 Among those with higher risk factors, homelessness is often a case of bad luck (O’Flaherty 2010).rtf
20260707 Berk and MacDonald (2010) note that the 2006 Safer Cities Initiative in Los Angeles, which intended to remove encampments in Skid Row, did so successfully, albeit temporarily.rtf
20260707 Boston, New York City, and Washington, D.C. also have substantially higher rates of overall homelessness than almost every other city, suggesting that most people being sheltered would not otherwise sleep on the street.rtf
20260707 Corinth and Rossi-de Vries (2018) find that the lifetime incidence of homelessness is reduced by 60 percent for individuals with strong ties to family, religious communities, and friends. -CEA 2019.rtf
20260707 Further reading todo1.rtf
20260707 Los Angeles has the second highest *rate* of unsheltered homelessness and the highest number of unsheltered homeless.rtf
20260707 New York City provides homeless shelters set up as private apartments with a separate kitchen and bedrooms for a single family for some families in its homeless assistance system.rtf
20260707 O’Flaherty and Wu (2006) find that the promise of housing subsidies for shelter dwellers increased the length of time families spend in shelter in New York City.rtf
20260707 Research has shown that individuals with severe mental illness, substance abuse problems, a history of incarceration, low incomes, and weak social ties are more likely to become homeless - CEA 2019.rtf
20260707 The approximately 110,000 bed reduction in transitional housing between 2007 and 2018 has been almost fully offset by an approximately 109,000 bed increase in rapid rehousing.rtf
20260707 The number of sheltered homeless people is defined as: the number of people living in emergency shelter plus the number of people living in transitional housing.rtf
20260707 We form predicted unsheltered homelessness rates by regressing the natural logarithm of unsheltered homelessness rates on average January temperature, the natural logarithm of average median rent ....rtf
20260707 recent research finds that evictions may be a key mechanism through which homelessness prevention programs reduce homelessness.rtf
20260707 the promise of housing for homeless people could encourage people to stay homeless longer in order to qualify.rtf
2060707 The count of homeless people may have declined because those in transitional housing are defined as homeless. (I misread CEA, thinking that the assignment of “homelessness” to transitional housing changed).rtf