Permanent Supportive Housing
Articles
Smart-spending Skid Row Program Saves Lives
Los Angeles Times, Steve Lopez, Feb. 10, 2009
Neighborhoods Not Hurt by Housing for Needy
Crane’s New York Business, Daniel Massey, Nov. 6, 2008
L.A.’s Homeless: A Progress Report
Los Angeles Times, Jennifer Wolch, Gary Blasi, and Michael Dear, Jun. 22, 2008
Getting Mentally Ill Off Skid Row
The Tidings, R.W. Dellinger, Oct. 26, 2007
Housing Agency and Family Lift Man from Life in the Street
New York Times, Sean D. Hamill, Jul. 25, 2007
Historic Hotel Offers Homeless Remedy
Daily Journal, Anat Rubin, Mar. 5, 2007
5 Steps to Get Out Of Skid Row
Los Angeles Times, Gary Blasi, Michael Dear and Jennifer Wolch, Dec. 31, 2006
A Clouded Life Finds Some Light at Rainbow
Los Angeles Times, Steve Lopez, Nov. 1, 2006
Havens for Hard-ups
Los Angeles Times, Editorial Staff, May 11, 2006
What the Homeless Need First: Homes
Los Angeles Times, Steve Lopez, Mar. 22, 2006
Million Dollar Murray: Why Problems like Homelessness May Be Easier to Solve than to Manage
The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell, Feb. 13, 2006
A Cost-Efficient Answer to the Question of L.A.'s Homeless
Los Angeles Business Journal, Wade Killefer, Aug. 1, 2005
Reports and Studies
Where We Sleep: Costs when Homeless and Housed in Los Angeles
Economic Roundtable, November 2009
Cost of Homelessness: Cost Analysis of Permanent Supportive Housing in Portland, Maine
Maine Depts. of Housing and Health and Human Services, Sept. 2007
Denver Housing First Cost Benefit Analysis
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, Dec. 11, 2006
The Applicability of Housing First Models to Homeless Persons with Serious Mental Illness
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, July 2007
Supportive Housing is Cost Effective
National Alliance to End Homelessness, January 2007
Costs of Serving Homeless Individuals in Nine Cities
Corporation for Supportive Housing, November 2004
The New York/New York Agreement Cost Study
Corporation for Supportive Housing, May 2001
Skid Row Policing
Articles
Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor?
New York Times, Barbara Ehrenreich, August 8, 2009
L.A. Criticized as "Meanest City" in America
Los Angeles Daily News, Troy Anderson, July 14, 2009
Los Angeles Accused of Criminalizing Homelessness
Reuters, Steve Gorman, July 14, 2009
Skid Row Activists Want Investigation of LAPD Policing Practices
KPCC, Frank Stoltze, March 11, 2009
LAPD and ACLU Reach Settlement on Skid Row Searches
Los Angeles Times, Richard Winton and Cara Mia DiMassa, Dec. 18, 2008
Skid Row Still Needs More Than Cops
Los Angeles Times, Steve Lopez, Nov. 19, 2008
Diverting Skid Row’s Homeless, But to Where?
Daily Journal, Anat Rubin, Dec. 5, 2007
Here’s A Jaywalking Ticket That’s Nonsense
Los Angeles Times, Steve Lopez, Aug. 19, 2007
One Downtown but Two Sets of Rules? - Down And Out Get Cited, Up and In Don’t
Daily Journal, Anat Rubin, Jun. 20, 2007
A Police State on Skid Row: The LAPD Is Again Rousting and Searching Homeless People without Cause
Los Angeles Times, Ramona Ripston, Mar. 12, 2007
Prosecutors Target Drugs on Skid Row - Public Defenders Say Plea Deals No Longer Available
Daily Journal, Anat Rubin, Jan. 29, 2007
L.A. Cops Crack Down on Skid Row as Gentrification Looms
NewStandard Online, Jessica Hoffman, Oct. 17, 2006
Police Deny Inventing Empty Beds on Skid Row
Daily Journal, Anat Rubin, Oct. 27, 2006
Critics Dispute LAPD’s Assessment of Shelter
Daily Journal, Anat Rubin, Oct. 19, 2006
Reports and Studies:
Homes Not Handcuffs: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities
The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty and The National Coalition for the Homeless, July 2009
Safer Cities: A Failed Policy
Los Angeles Community Action Network and Lamp Community, Sept. 2008
A Study of Racially Disparate Outcomes in the Los Angeles Police Department
ACLU of Southern California, October 2008
Has the Safer Cities Initiative in Skid Row Reduced Serious Crime?
Gary Blasi, UCLA School of Law, Sept. 2008
Policing our Way Out of Homelessness?
Gary Blasi, UCLA School of Law, Sept. 2007
Mental Health Services Act
Lawsuit Challenges Prop. 1E Ballot Label
The Sacramento Bee, Andy Furillo, Mar. 4, 2009
Governor's Proposal to Redirect Outpatient Mental Health Care Funds to Alleviate Budget Crisis Blasted
The Press-Enterprise, Lora Hines, Jan. 27, 2009
Citing Legal Fears, County Turns To Cops to Help Mental Patients
Daily Journal, Evan George, Nov. 14, 2008
New Funds, Enduring Ills
Los Angeles Times, Scott Gold and Lee Romney, Sept. 16, 2007
Suit Seeks to Restore Funds for Treatment of Homeless Mentally Ill
Los Angeles Times, Scott Gold and Lee Romney, Dec. 14, 2007
Program for Mentally Ill Eliminated
Los Angeles Times, Scott Gold, Lee Romney and Evan Halper, Aug. 25, 2007
Governor, Show A Little Care for the Mentally Ill
Los Angeles Times, Steve Lopez, Jun. 29, 2007
Affordable Housing Preservation
Articles
L.A.'s Hidden Housing Disaster
L.A. Weekly, Max Taves, Jan. 15, 2009
Sukkot on the Streets–Finding Community amid Temporary Shelter
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, Anat Rubin, Nov. 2008
Law Firms ‘Adopt’ Skid Row Residency Hotels
Daily Journal, Anat Rubin, Jun. 5, 2008
Critics Say Measure Fails to Protect Poorest
Daily Journal, Anat Rubin, Apr. 2, 2008
Alleging Discrimination, Hotel Residents Sue Developer and City
Daily Journal, Anat Rubin, Dec. 21, 2007
Suit Alleges Illegal Eviction at Hotel
Los Angeles Times, Ari B. Bloomekatz, Dec. 21, 2007
Developer Facing Tenant Accusations Gets Millions
Daily Journal, Anat Rubin, Sept. 17, 2007
The Cecil Gets a Makeover
Los Angeles Downtown News, Anna Scott, Sept. 10, 2007
Skid Row Makeover
Salon.com, Evelyn Nieves, Aug. 8, 2006
A Tale Of Two Lobbies - A Boom in Lofts Threatens Housing for Skid Row’s Poor
Daily Journal, Anat Rubin, Mar. 20, 2006
Studies and Reports
Taming the Perfect Storm
South Los Angeles Homeless Prevention and Intervention Collaborative, July 2008
Violence against the Homeless
L.A. County to Track Violence against Homeless People
Los Angeles Times, Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Mar. 24, 2009
HPD Seeks Motive, Suspect in Homeless Man’s Slaying
Houston Chronicle, Dale Lezon, Feb. 13, 2009
Homeless Man Dies after Attack
Santa Barbara Independent, Isabelle T. Walker, Feb. 6, 2009
5 slain in Homeless Encampment
Los Angeles Times, Ari B. Bloomekatz and Harriet Ryan, Nov. 3, 2008
Burned to Death for Being Homeless
The Tidings, R. W. Dellinger, Oct. 24, 2008
Violence Against the Homeless: Is It a Hate Crime?
Time Magazine, Alison Stateman, Oct. 22, 2008
Police Say Teens Beat Homeless Ohio Man to Death
USA Today, Joe Milicia, Jun. 27, 2008
2 Arrested In Fatal Beating of SF Homeless Man
CBS News, Jul. 17, 2008
Homeless Man Beaten to Death is identified
Arizona Daily Star, Alexis Huicochea, May 13, 2008
Homeless Amputee Beaten to Death with Own Crutch
San Diego Union Tribune, Debbi Farr Baker, April 15, 2008
Reports and Studies:
Hate, Violence, and Death on Main Street USA
National Coalition for the Homeless, April 2008
