2011 Crisis Indicator: Triage Tool for Identifying Homeless Adults in Crisis
 This triage tool, or crisis indicator, produced by the Economic Roundtable, follows on the research for the "Where We Sleep" report. This paper provides tools for identifying homeless individuals in hospitals and jails with acute needs, the highest public costs when homeless, and the greatest reduction in public costs when housed.
The earlier analysis of 10,193 homeless, destitute single adults in Los Angeles County – 1,007 of whom exited homelessness by entering supportive housing – was carried out in collaboration with the Los Angeles County Chief Executive Office, which linked records for these individuals across multiple public agencies, providing crucial information about their characteristics and the public costs for health, mental health, justice system, and welfare services they used. Supportive housing is permanent, affordable housing with on-site case management and additional on-site, or readily available, services such as health, mental health and substance abuse rehabilitation.
This triage tools enables hospitals and jails to put research into action, prioritizing soon-to-be-released patients or inmates for the region's limited number of supportive housing units.
Download the Report:
Crisis Indicator: Triage Tool for Identifying Homeless Adults in Crisis  (64 pages)
Triage Tool for Calculating Probability of Being in the 10th Decile  (spreadsheet)
2009 Where We Sleep: Costs when Homeless & Housed in LA
 New report by the Economic Roundtable, the first of its kind for Los Angeles. This cost avoidance study encompasses 10,000+ currently and formerly homeless residents in Los Angeles County, comparing the costs of public services for housed and un-housed individuals to determine the effect of supportive housing on costs. Homeless residents often have multiple medical, psychiatric and substance abuse problems, and often experience crises that result in costly health, welfare and criminal justice services. Previous research in other cities has shown that when homeless persons are housed, the cost for public services decreases. For this Los Angeles-based study, we compare the real costs of services provided by the following county departments and agencies:
Beyond LA County Departments, we also integrate private hospital data from California's OSHPD records.
Download the Report:
Where We Sleep: Costs when Homeless & Housed in LA (15 MB, Adobe Acrobat, 22 pages)
2008 Report Card on Homelessness in Los Angeles
 This Report Card grades the work and efforts of Los Angeles as it seeks to reduce and eliminate homelessness, and is the first in an annual series designed to measure progress and efforts toward ending homelessness.
Approximately 141,737 residents of the Los Angeles County Continuum of Care area are homeless at some point over the course of the year. While there are signs that homelessness is declining, the total number of homeless men, women, and children remains unacceptably high. The overall assessment across a variety of action areas related to homelessness is a D+. This report card is not a judgment about specific jurisdictions, but rather is about our collective progress and efforts as a community. Detailed evaluations are summarized in the report, and suggest that the Los Angeles region has much work to do. This Report Card was compiled by:
- Jennifer Wolch, USC
- Daniel Warshawsky, USC
- Gary Blasi, UCLA
- Michael Dear, USC
- Daniel Flaming, Economic Roundtable
- Paul Tepper, USC
and evaluated by 38 researchers.
Download the Report:
2008 Report Card on Homelessness in Los Angeles (15 MB, Adobe Acrobat, 22 pages)
Policing Our Way Out of Homelessness? The First Year of the Safer Cities Initiative on Skid Row
Professor Gary Blasi, UCLA School of Law &
the UCLA School of Law Fact Investigation Clinic. Released
September 24, 2007
 On September 24, 2006, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced the public launch of a “Safer Cities Initiative” on Skid Row in Los Angeles . This report summarizes the results of that initiative, as determined through a months-long research project carried out by two faculty members and twelve advanced law students who comprised the Fact Investigation Clinic at the UCLA School of Law . This report is part of a larger project examining the problem of chronic homelessness in Los Angeles’ Skid Row and the role of City and County policy in both contributing to and responding to that problem.
This investigation includes a review of about 15,000 pages of public records and the analysis of multiple computer databases provided under the California Public Records Act by the Los Angeles Police Department, the Office of the City Attorney, and the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. The authors also conducted more than 200 interviews of people with special knowledge of one or more aspects of the problem. Below is a direct link to the report in Adobe PDF format:
Policing Our Way Out of Homelessness? (980 KB, Adobe Acrobat, 51 pages)
A Reality-Based Approach to Ending Homelessness in Los Angeles
 In Los Angeles today, current policy on homelessness is preoccupied with providing
emergency shelter beds and policing people who are homeless.
Skid Row disproportionately – and unfairly – cares for the region’s homeless people because
so many other communities in Los Angeles County provide no services to help them. These
communities are using Skid Row as their solution to homelessness.
Everyone in LA wins if we work together to end homelessness.
These reports are a petition to policy makers to take immediate and informed action to address homelessness. The reports were written by:
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Gary Blasi, UCLA
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Michael Dear, USC
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Dan Flaming, Economic Roundtable
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Paul Koegel, RAND
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Paul Tepper, WCA Development Corporation
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Jennifer Wolch, USC
and signed by 48 other LA-based
academic researchers. Below is a direct link to the report documents in Adobe PDF format:
A Reality Based Approach to End Homelessness in Los Angeles (1.4 MB, Adobe Acrobat, 8 pages)
Ending Homelessness
in Los Angeles - Research Report (1.5 MB, Adobe Acrobat, 28 pages)
10-Year Strategy to End Homelessness: Public Discussion Draft
 Comprehensive strategy with 25 actions, accountable agencies, timelines, and performance benchmarks to prevent and end homelessness in Los Angeles County. Underwritten by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
By Daniel Flaming and Paul Tepper. Completed June 2004, released August 2006, 76 pages. Below is a direct link to the report in Adobe PDF format:
10-Year Strategy to End Homelessness (1.6 MB, Adobe Acrobat document)
Estimating the Scope of Services and Cost to End
Homelessness
Slide presentation on the scope of services and cost to end homelessness in
Los Angeles, prepared for Bring LA Home! by Dan Flaming of the Economic Roundtable.
This 24-slide PowerPoint file covers the following policy questions:
- How many people are homeless?
- What services are needed?
- How much spendable resources do homeless people have?
- How are housing needs met?
Below is a direct link to the presentation file in MS PowerPoint format:
 Estimating the Scope of Services and Cost to End Homelessness (509 KB, MS PowerPoint)
An Assessment of Mental Health Needs Among Homeless People
In Central Los Angeles
This report from the USC Keck School of Medicin
offers an "in-depth
view of the mental health needs of the homeless in central
Los
Angeles and the system that is designed to provide for
their care." The report presents an overview of mental
illness and homelessness; explores the current mental health
service
capacity in downtown Los Angeles; identifies barriers
and gaps;
and presents conclusions and recommendations.
A copy of the
report can be downloaded from the Institute
for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty at the Weingart
Center. Below is a
direct link to the report
in Adobe PDF format:
An
Assessment of Mental Health Needs Among Homeless People in Central Los Angeles (170 KB, Adobe Acrobat)
Public Policy and Homelessness
This presentation was created by the Economic
Roundtable for the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Business
Management to explore Public Policy options to assist people
who are
homeless.
Download:
Public Policy and Homelessness
(Format: PDF, Size: 745KB)
Draft Framework for the 10-Year Strategic
Plan to
End Homelessness in Los Angeles
This report was prepared by the Los Angeles Homeless
Services Authority (LAHSA) and includes guiding principles, goals and implementation concepts for ending homelessness. The report was presented to, but not approved by, the Blue Ribbon Panel at its meeting on September 23, 2004.
Download:
Draft Framework for the 10-Year Strategic Plan to
End
Homelessness in Los Angeles
(Format: PDF, Size: 320KB)
Strategic Plan to End Homelessness in Ten Years
The Economic Roundtable and the Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty prepared the 10-Year Strategy to End Homelessness. The strategy includes (1) a highly detailed list of tasks that need to be carried out to end homelessness, (2) the organizations that should be responsible for each task, (3) a proposed time line for each task, and (4) a detailed inventory of specific actions that can be taken to accomplish each task.
(The strategy awaits release)
Referral Guide for Homeless Children, Youth
and Families
The purpose of the referral guide is to
provide a starting point for identifying sources of help
for homeless children, youth and families, and for strengthening
collaboration among service providers. The guide includes
maps as well as lists of street addresses, email addresses,
and phone numbers for over 500 service providers. It covers
Los Angeles County and the listings are organized
by
the eight Service Planning Areas (SPAs) in the county.
It is well organized and user friendly.
The guide was commissioned and underwritten by the Los
Angeles County Office of Education. It was prepared by
the Economic Roundtable.
Download:
Referral Guide for Homeless Children, Youth and Families
(Format: PDF, Size: 1.89MB)
Focus Group Meeting Recommendations
A number of focus group meetings were hosted
by the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness
to elicit recommendations from participants for the Bring
LA Home! 10-year Plan to Eliminate Homelessness. The reports
listed below contain these recommendations.
Download: Substance Abuse Focus Group - Recommendations
(Format: PDF, Size: 48KB)
Download: Homeless Focus Group - Recommendations
(Format: PDF, Size: 28KB)
Download: Runaway and Homeless Youth Focus Group - Recommendations
(Format: PDF, Size: 27KB)
Download: Mental Health Focus Group - Recommendations
(Format: PDF, Size: 28KB)
Download:
Business and Central City Association Focus Group- Recommendations
(Format: PDF, Size: 18KB)
Download:
Department of Children and Family Services Focus Group
- Recommendations
(Format: PDF, Size: 30KB)
Download:
Department of Public Social Services Focus Group - Recommendations
(Format: PDF, Size: 25KB)
Download:
Health I Focus Group - Recommendations
(Format: PDF, Size: 29KB)
Download:
Health II Focus Group - Recommendations
(Format: PDF, Size: 33KB)
Download:
LA County Office of Education Focus Group - Recommendations
(Format: PDF, Size: 28KB)
Strategic Planning Report #2
Homelessness in Los Angeles: A Summary
of Recent Research There is a substantial body
of research conducted over the last 20 years that can help
us describe the nature and extent of homelessness in Los
Angeles. This report presents many of the findings from
this research. This report was prepared by the
Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty at the
Weingart Center for the Los
Angeles
Homeless Services Authority.
Download: Homelessness in Los Angeles: A summary of
recent research
(Format: PDF, Size: 726KB)
Strategic Planning Report #1
Homeless in LA: Final Research Report
for the 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness in Los Angeles
County - Homeless in Los Angeles was prepared by
the Economic
Roundtable and underwritten by the Los
Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
September, 2004
Download:
Homeless in Los Angeles
Executive Summary
(Format: PDF, Size: 121KB)
Download:
Homeless in Los Angeles
Complete Report
(Format: PDF, Size: 1.29 MB)
Download:
Homeless in Los Angeles
Blue Ribbon Panel Meeting Presentation
(Format: PDF, Size: 269KB)
Download: Homelessness in Los Angeles
Community Meeting Presentation
(Format: PDF, Size: 997KB)
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