Homelessness Demystified: Final Report
Homelessness
The goal of I4E's 2019 Homelessness Demystified campaign was to educate men and women about the plight of homeless people, the homelessness crisis in OC, and empower all interested residents to find their best fit in working towards a solution. The final report describes the two panel programs of the 2019 Homelessness Demystified Gatherings on Feb. 2 and May 4, hosted by the Presbyterian Women of the Presbytery of Los Ranchos as well as the Buffet of Educational Experiences, lessons learned, leaders emerged, and next steps. Includes promotional materials and infographics of the impact of selected experiences such as Housing, Volunteering, and Transforming Knowledge into Action. 20 pages.
Anita Coleman
15 June, 2019
Report
California -- United States
Lessons Learned from Homelessness Demystified
Emergency Shelters (aka Emergency Housing) (Type of Homeless Housing)
Nine detailed info graphics about the housing and volunteering experiences in the Homelessness Demystified campaign.
Anita Coleman
Latha Kumar
June 2019
I4E Career Development Pilot Final Report. A Learning by Volunteering Experience.
Emergency Shelters (aka Emergency Housing) (Type of Homeless Housing)
The I4E Career Development Pilot was a learning by volunteering experience in the Homelessness Demystified: Buffet of Educational Experiences campaign. The pilot is described as well as the emerging leaders, lessons learned, and next steps. The recruitment flyer, a few pictures, and an infographic provide a wealth of details.
Anita Coleman (Writer, Photographer, Graphic Designer)
Latha Kumar (Graphic Designer)
Feb. 2019 - May 2019
Report
<a href="http://homelesshub.ca/sites/default/files/pauly_programevaluation_sept2012.pdf">Strategies to End Homelessness: Current Approaches to Evaluation </a>
Homelessness is a concern throughout Canada in rural, urban, southern and northern areas (Wellesley Institute, 2010). One estimate of homelessness in Canada indicates that there are about 150,000 people who seek refuge in emergency shelters nightly (Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, 2009).
Being homeless is associated with poor physical and mental health (Frankish, Hwang, & Quantz, 2005; Hwang et al., 2008; Research Alliance for Canadian Homelessness Housing and Health, 2010; Wright & Tompkins, 2005), early death (Cheung & Hwang, 2004; Hwang, 2000; Hwang, Wilkins, Tjepkema, O’Campo, & Dunn, 2009; Spittal et al., 2006), lack of access to health care services (Ensign & Planke, 2002; Pauly, in press; Wen, Hudak, & Hwang, 2007), increased risk of depression and suicide (Buhrich, Hodder, & Teesson, 2006; Menzies, 2006) and victimization (Khandor & Mason, 2007). Homelessness impacts a diverse group of men, women, youth, and families, including Aboriginal peoples, military veterans, immigrants and refugees.
In the last decade, there have been calls for a shift away from managing homelessness to ending homelessness (National Alliance to End Homelessness, 2000; The Alberta Secretariat for Action on Homelessness, 2008). Managing homelessness focuses mainly on providing emergency shelter and charitable meal programs as temporary assistance for those in need of food and shelter. An over-emphasis on emergency responses is more expensive than placing individuals directly into housing (Larimer et al., 2009; National Alliance to End Homelessness; Patterson, Somers, MacIntosh, Shiell, & Frankish, 2007) and has negative impacts on the health, safety, and wellbeing of people experiencing homelessness and the communities they live in.
The purpose of this paper is to provide a summary of research on interventions that aim to end or reduce homelessness. Our specific goals were to gain an understanding of the different populations for whom interventions have been tested and the type of interventions evaluated, as well as to create an inventory of the indicators used to assess the effectiveness of interventions. We provide an overview of the methodology used to gather research on strategies to end homelessness. In the findings, we review the types of interventions evaluated, highlight the populations studied, and summarize the indicators of effectiveness used in the evaluations. Finally, we discuss the findings of this review in relation to current and future research on homeless interventions.
The study conclusion: in evaluating homelessness initiatives, there [needs to] be attention to broader systemic responses to end homelessness.
Bernie Pauly, RN, Ph.D.
Elly Carlson, MA
Kathleen Perkin, MA
<a href="http://homelesshub.ca/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Homeless Hub</a>
2012
2012 Canadian Homelessness Research Network Press.
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English
Research
Canada
<p>Housing is a Human Right OC, et al vs. County of Orange, Irvine, Aliso Viejo, Dana Point, San Juan Capistrano, San Clemente, Case 8:19-cv-00388, Filed 02/27/2019. South County Case Amended Complained 05/13/2019.</p>
Emergency Shelters (aka Emergency Housing) (Type of Homeless Housing)
Homeless persons
Homelessness
<p>In Housing is a Human Right OC, Orange County Catholic Worker, Emergency Shelter Coalition, et al vs. The County of Orange, The City of Irvine, The City of Aliso Viejo, The City of Dana Point, The City of San Juan Capistrano, The City of San Clemente, Case 8:19-cv-00388, Filed 02/27/2019.</p>
<p>Case 8:19-cv-00388 Document 1 Filed 02/27/19 (50 pages) the <a href="https://i4e.omeka.net/items/show/24" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Federal Lawsuit</a> from last year has been expanded. Five (5) South Orange County cities of Irvine, Aliso Viejo, Dana Point, San Juan Capistrano, and San Clemente, are now sued for their treatment of homeless people and the lack of shelters. 50 pages. Class action suit. <br /><br />This is an action for injunctive and declaratory relief and damages for the individual plaintiffs pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violations of Plaintiffs’ rights under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, as well as federal statutory law applicable to individuals with disabilities.</p>
<p>Case revised to include 2019 PIT Count results 05/13/2019. <br /><span style="font-size:23.3px;font-family:serif;"></span></p>
Brooke Weitzman, Elder Law and Disability Rights Center
William Wise, Elder Law and Disability Rights Center
Carol A. Sobel, Law Office of Carol Sobel
Monique Alcaron, Law Office of Carol Sobel
February 27, 2019; Revised and refiled 05/13/2019
Complaint (Legal Document)
<a href="https://scng-dash.digitalfirstmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/South-County-homeless-lawsuit.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://scng-dash.digitalfirstmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/South-County-homeless-lawsuit.pdf</a>
Orange County, California, United States
<a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/691102" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Do we have the knowledge to address homelessness?</a>
Various forms of housing exclusion are a reality for millions of people across the globe. For people who are homeless in advanced industrialized economies, housing exclusion often co-exists with social service engagement. This essay reviews three books about how homelessness is conceptualized and caused, and how we, as social service providers and social scientists, respond to homelessness: Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Transforming Systems, and Changing Lives, by Deborah Padgett, Benjamin Henwood, and Sam Tsemberis;
Women Rough Sleepers in Europe: Homelessness and Victims of Domestic Abuse, by Kate Moss and Paramjit Singh; and The Value of Homelessness: Managing Surplus Life in the United States, by Craig Willse. It concludes that Housing First achieves justice for deeply marginalized individuals but that the effectiveness of Housing First represents a disturbing reminder of our failed welfare states and public institutions.
Cameron Parsnell
Book Review Article
<a href="https://www.huduser.gov/portal/publications/hsgfirst.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Applicability of Housing First Models to Homeless Persons With Serious Mental Illness</a>
Housing First
Understanding homelessness is a necessary step toward ending it, especially for those persons living with a chronic condition such as mental illness, an addiction, or physical disability. Ending chronic homelessness remains a national goal for President Bush, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and many within the homeless advocacy community.
In recent years, an approach known as Housing First has emerged as one model for serving chronically homeless people. HUD began this study as a first step in describing how Housing First programs actually work and what sorts of short term outcomes are realized by the people they serve.
This report, The Applicability of Housing First Models to Homeless Persons with Serious Mental Illness, provides a basic description of several programs that represent a Housing First model. The report should help clarify the issues and inform the policy discussion about how best to address the most vulnerable in American society.
Carol L. Pearson, Ph.D., Walter R. McDonald & Associates, Inc.
Gretchen Locke, Abt Associates Inc.
Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Walter R. McDonald & Associates, Inc.
Larry Buron, Ph.D., Abt Associates Inc.
<a href="https://www.huduser.gov" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Prepared for: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research</a>
2007 (July)
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English
Report
United States of America
<a href="https://legacy.cityofirvine.org/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=8842" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">City of Irvine Housing Strategy and Implementation Plan</a>
[This is a great report to understand Irvine's visionary housing development, and principles and implementations such as inclusionary zoning and the Irvine Community Land Trust].
From the Executive Summary: The cost of housing is very high in Orange County, and particularly so in desirable areas like the City of Irvine. The median price of a single-family home in Irvine is now $800,000, higher than the Orange County average ($707,000) and much higher than the overall average for California ($538,770).
Since its incorporation in 1971, the City of Irvine has been a leader in Orange County and in Southern California in the creation of a full spectrum of housing opportunities, including affordable housing. The City has provided inclusionary incentives locally and has also provided funding for various affordable housing projects over the years. As a result, the City now has 4,400 units of affordable housing, of which 3,155 were created through its inclusionary program and another 1,245 through HUD-assisted projects. Unfortunately, many of these affordable housing units are now at risk of losing their affordability due to expiring controls, restrictions and/or subsidies.
The recent annexation of the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station property, and the City’s subsequent creation of a Redevelopment Agency with El Toro as its project area, has created a new and significant opportunity for future affordable housing. The build out of the residential portion of this property, together with the continuing build out of the rest of the City, will provide the City with the ability to create a significant number of new affordable housing units.
To capitalize on this opportunity, the City of Irvine hired CivicStone, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in affordable housing, to develop a housing strategy for the City. This report represents the culmination of this work.
Civic Stone
City of Irvine
Adopted March 14, 2006
Amended June 24, 2014
Amended November 10, 2015
<a href="https://legacy.cityofirvine.org/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=8842" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://legacy.cityofirvine.org/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=8842</a>
United to End Homelessness: The Costs to Our Community
Permanent Supportive Housing
Presentation at the OC Clergy To End Homelessness, Mount Olive Lutheran Church, Mission Viejo.
32 slides describing the methodology, findings, and recommendations from the UCI/United Way/Jamboree Housing Study. It includes the #unitedtoendhomelessness pledge.
David Snow
Rachel Goldberg
April 26, 2018
<a target="_blank" href="https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3994&context=clevstlrev" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Power to Exclude and the Power to Expel</a>
Article Abstract: Property laws have far-reaching implications for the way people live and for the opportunities they and their children will have. They also have important consequences for property developers and businesses, both large and small. It is not surprising, therefore, that modern developments in property law have been so strongly influenced by political pressures. Unfortunately, those with the most economic resources and political power have had the most telling influences on the development of property laws in the United States during the twentieth century. This Article introduces a simple game—the “Not-In-My-Backyard Game”—to illustrate the motivations of various parties with interests in the direction of American property law. As the analysis indicates, affluent residents and owners of upscale businesses have incentives to pressure suburban governments for zoning regulations that effectively exclude less affluent residents from their neighborhoods. Affluent residents and corporations who want to relocate into urban neighborhoods have incentives to pressure city governments to use eminent domain to facilitate urban redevelopment projects, and the takings that ensue often effectively expel many less affluent residents and smaller businesses from their neighborhoods. The analysis accords with the historical evidence. In the early twentieth century, suburban governments began to use zoning ordinances to exclude poor and less affluent residents from suburban neighborhoods. Around the middle of the twentieth century, city governments began to use takings to effectively expel less affluent residents and smaller businesses from urban neighborhoods. The United States Supreme Court upheld the powers of local governments to exclude and expel, and state courts acquiesced to them. The consequences are high and rising land prices, unaffordable housing, homelessness, and the perpetuation of the de facto segregation of the American people by income, wealth, race, ethnicity, religion, and national origin.
Donald J. Smythe
<a href="http://network.bepress.com/law/property-law-and-real-estate/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Property Law and Real Estate Commons</a>
<a href="https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Engaged Scholarship at Cleveland State University</a> / <a href="https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/clevstlrev/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cleveland State Law Review</a>
June 2018
Law Review Article
<a href="https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3994&context=clevstlrev" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3994&context=clevstlrev</a>
United States of America
<a href="https://www.jamboreehousing.com/uploads/presentations/jamboree-united-way-cost-study-oc-homelessness-2017-report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Homelessness In Orange County: The Costs To Our Community</a>
The purpose of this project has been to conduct a countywide cost study, with two primary objectives:
First, to estimate the economic expenditures on homelessness that have accrued to the county, its 34 municipalities, and its non-governmental service agencies, including hospitals and non-profits providing services to this population; Second, to assess the extent to which the costs of serving the homeless vary across the spectrum of those living on the streets and in shelters versus those living in alternative forms of housing.
71 pages
Dr. David Snow, Dept. of Sociology, UCI
Dr. Rachel Goldberg,Dept. of Sociology, UCI
<a href="%20https%3A//www.jamboreehousing.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jamboree Housing</a>
June 2017
PDF
English
Report
Orange County
<a href="http://www.transformca.org/sites/default/files/Housing-Transit-Crossroads.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Moving San Mateo County Forward: Housing and Transit at a Crossroads</a>
This is a report by by TransForm, a nonprofit supporting transit and smart growth, and the Housing Leadership Council; they are housing and transit advocates. The report was funded by the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, the Hewlett Foundation and several other regional community foundations. <br /><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden view-mode-full">
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<p><strong>Author Abstract:</strong> As Silicon Valley growth has soared, cities have failed to build the housing needed, leading to record traffic delays. From 2010 to 2015, San Mateo County added 72,800 new jobs, but just 3,844 homes: for each new home, that’s 19 jobs. The report also finds that half of San Mateo County’s workers make less than $50,000 per year, and most local homes are priced far out of reach for most local workers.</p>
<p>The report includes brief stories from local workers, who are unable to find housing nearby, are commuting long distances, or are planning to leave the county entirely. “A few years ago, after my husband and I split up, my children and I spent nearly a month in a homeless shelter,” said Myrna Trujillo, a Daly City resident. “Permanent affordable housing saved my life.”</p>
<p>While everyone feels the effects of the shortage, low-income renters and buyers are hit hardest. “Even in Silicon Valley, most jobs are not high-paying tech jobs,” says HLC's executive director, Evelyn Stivers. “Many people work in retail and restaurants or care for seniors and children. The people with the fewest resources and the least flexible jobs are being forced into the worst commutes.”</p>
<p>According to the report, almost half of all new jobs in San Mateo County in the years to come will pay less than $65,000 a year—and many jobs will pay far less than that. Without policy interventions to address housing and transportation in an integrated way, both problems are bound to get worse. The report offers solutions that transit agencies, cities, and the County can all take to move us forward.</p>
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<div class="field-item even">As Silicon Valley's economic growth has soared, cities have failed to build the housing needed, leading to record traffic delays. This report, published jointly by the Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County and TransForm, shows how the housing crisis is inextricably linked to our traffic and transportation woes, with recommendations for how to address both.</div>
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<br /><strong>Notes from <a href="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2018/06/21/study-lack-of-housing-means-more-traffic-not-less/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">East Bay Times</a>:</strong><br />The report finds that rejection of new housing developments in San Mateo County has led to more, not less, congestion as workers move farther away to find affordable housing. One new home was built in San Mateo County for every 19 jobs created between 2010 and 2015.<br /><br />Many cities and their residents have fought new development because they are “really concerned about traffic,” said Evelyn Stivers, executive director of the Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo; “not building housing [though] really causes traffic problems.”<br /><br />The report shows the difficulties expanding transit and housing in a county that hosts the headquarters of Facebook, Oracle, Genentech and other tech giants, and encompasses some of the wealthiest communities in the United States. The median sales price for a home in San Mateo County in April was $1.6 million. The area’s median annual income is $118,400 — less than one-third of the annual salary needed to purchase a home with a 10 percent down payment. The report comes as county leaders consider a proposal to add a half-cent to the sales tax to raise transportation funds. Many solutions are proposed for easing both housing affordability as well as traffic congestion. This is a research report of 24 pages with detailed statistics and figures.
Elizabeth Stampe
The Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo works with communities and their leaders to produce and preserve quality affordable homes. <a href="http://hlcsmc.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">hlcsmc.org</a>
TransForm promotes walkable communities with excellent transportation choices to connect people of all incomes to opportunity, keep California affordable, and help solve our climate crisis. <a href="http://www.transformca.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">transformca.org</a>
June 2018
Study Report
<a href="http://www.transformca.org/sites/default/files/Housing-Transit-Crossroads.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://www.transformca.org/sites/default/files/Housing-Transit-Crossroads.pdf</a>
San Mateo County - California
<a href="http://cahomelessyouth.library.ca.gov/docs/pdf/PushingBackAgainstSchoolPushout.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Pushing Back Against School Pushout: Student Homelessness and Opportunities for Change</a>
A strong relationship exists between homelessness and academic achievement in America. More than one third of the nation’s unaccompanied youth reside in California. In fact, during the 2016-2017 school year, about 202,500 K-12 students experienced homelessness in California. This Special Topic report by the California Homeless Youth Project reports on how school discipline is one of the barriers to academic achievement that students who experience homelessness find themselves facing. The study identifies solutions to these barriers. 32 pages.
Emily Herr
Samantha Bielz
Shahera Hyatt
<a href="http://cahomelessyouth.library.ca.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">California Homeless Youth Project: Voices From The Stree</a>
September 2018
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English
Report
California
A Regional Perspective, ACC-OC United to End Homelessness
Permanent Supportive Housing
The Association of California Cities–Orange County (ACC-OC) represents the interests of Orange County cities on regional public policy issues. The Association believes in education that empowers, policy development that is collaborative, and advocacy that is service orientated. Homeless is best solved regionally and the Association is working to hard build a regional coalition that can work collaboratively to solve it; finance and funding projects, and business planning for the development of 2700 permanent supportive units that will be built in the next three to five years; each city in the OC will have a different allocation of psh as per pre-agreed upon and established criteria.
Heather Stratman
<a href="http://accoc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ACC-OC</a>
April 26, 2018
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Homelessness Demystified: Strategic Directions and Missional Actions (Videos)
Emergency Shelters (aka Emergency Housing) (Type of Homeless Housing)
Homelessness
Transitional Housing
Homelessness
This is a video playlist of 17 videos of the full program of Homelessness Demystified: Strategic Directions and Missional Actions on May 4, 2019 at First Pres. Church - Orange, Spring Gathering of the Presbyterian Women of the Presbytery of Los Ranchos.
Videos:
1. Opening Scenes, Meet and Greet
2. Welcome Anne Sivley and Opening Prayer by Rev. Winston Presnall
3. Welcome and Housekeeping
4. I4E SOS - One year anniversary
5. Anne Sivley - Jamboree Housing Experience - 3 mins
6. Virginia Tibbetts - WISEPlace Housing Experience - 3 mins
7. Diana Law - Century Villages at Cabrillo Housing Experience - 3 mins
8. Susan Eaton - Friendship Shelter - 3 mins
9. Lessons Learned, Anita Coleman; Virginia Tibbetts on Safe Organized Spaces - 3 mins
10. Dorie Solinger - I4E Career Development Pilot - 2 mins
11. Lynn Redman - I4E Career Development Pilot - 2 mins
12. Helena Carlson - Creative Crafts for a Cause
13. Garrett Dunbar - Creative Crafts for a Cause
14. Bay Shambow - Creative Crafts for a Cause
15. Garrett Dunbar - Strategic Directions - 20 mins
16. Marney Wilde - Missional Actions - 12 mins
17. Q&A
About Homelessness Demystified: In Spring and Winter 2019 the Presbyterian Women of the Presbytery of Los Ranchos decided to focus their Gatherings on Homelessness and invited Dr. Anita Coleman, founder of Irvine for Everyone and a PWP leader, to serve as the Chair of the Program Planning Committee. Other members of the Planning team for the two Gatherings included: Anne Sivley, Kathleen Julian, Diane Roper, Janet Triplett, Brigette Brink, Eloisa Velasquez.
About Presbyterian Women: Presbyterian Women of the Presbytery of Los Ranchos (PWP) is a part of Presbyterian Women, Inc. (PW), the national women’s organization of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). With more than 300,000 members and 25 years as an organization, PW is organized at all levels of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Learn more about PW and consider joining or starting a local group. Subscribe to the award-winning Horizons magazine and the Bible Study. URL: https://www.presbyterianwomen.org/
About Irvine for Everyone: Irvine For Everyone (I4E) supports the creation of the full spectrum of housing in Irvine, California and empowers evidence-based solutions for ending OC homelessness and housing shortages. To learn more about I4E, Homelessness Demystified Buffet of Educational Experiences, visit http://irvineforeveryone.org
Thanks to the InSight Magazine team of Helena Carlson and Robert Thornsen for videography. #HomelessnessDemystified #BuffetOfEducationalExperiences #IrvineForEveryone #BEETheChange #PresbyterianWomen
Helena Carlson (videographer)
Anita Coleman
May 4, 2019
Videos
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i69RhkQvS8&list=PLu21EhkXq4uKOozTEwcK4rh01aizXK6Ew" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://tinyurl.com/i4eyoutubehd</a>