• Recent--U.S., California, Orange County--statistics: Third Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (2008) PDF-144 pages

• Recent--U.S.--statistics: "Chronic homeless population down 15%, U.S. says." Los Angeles Times, July 30, 2008. Available full text in database LexisNexis Academic.

• Recent report (L.A.)--2008 Report Card on Homelessness in L.A. County (2008) PDF-22 pages

• Recent report (L.A.)--Unsheltered: A Report on Homelessness in South Los Angeles (2008) PDf-52 pages

• Recent report--California--homeless youths: Homeless Youth: Bibliography and Resources (2008) [CRB] PDF-62 pages

• Recent report (L.A.)--Policing Our Way Out of Homelessness? PDF-51 pages (2007)

• Recent report (L.A.)--A Reality Based Approach to End Homelessness in Los Angeles PDF-8 pages (2007)

• Recent report (L.A.)--Ending Homelessness in Los Angeles PDF-28 pages (2007)

• Recent report--hate crimes against the homeless (U.S.): Hate, Violence, And Death on Main Street USA A Report on Hate Crimes and Violence Against People Experiencing Homelessness 2007

• Recent report--Los Angeles County: Changes in Homelessness, Supportive Housing, and Tenant Characteristics Since 2005 PDF-31 pages

• Recent report--California--homeless youths: Voices from the Street: A Survey of Homeless Youth by Their Peers (2008) PDF-133 pages

• Recent reports: Dying without Dignity: Homeless Deaths in Los Angeles County: 2000-2007 PDF-44 pages (2008)
  Nature and prevalence of death among homeless individuals from 2000 to 2007 in LA County. Demographics (ethnicity, gender, age), causes of deaths, geographic distribution and more. Comparisons to other major metro areas. Policy recommendations on preventing deaths among homeless in LA County.

• Recent reports: United Way Research Catalog--in search box, enter homeless

• Recent reports: Hunger and Homelessness Survey (December 2007) PDF-72 pages [city profiles of homelessness including Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and San Francisco]

• Recent reports--California: Educational Success of Homeless Youth in California: Challenges and Solutions (2007)

• Recent reports--Los Angeles: 2007 Homeless Count Report (2007)

• Recent reports--Los Angeles County: Homelessness in Los Angeles County (Nov. 2007) PDF-10 pages

• Recent reports--Los Angeles: Housing & Homelessness [United Way LA]

• Recent reports--Los Angeles: Homeless in Los Angeles - links to many reports

• Recent reports--Los Angeles: Policing Our Way Out of Homelessness? The First Year of the Safer Cities Initiative on Skid Row [UCLA] (2007) PDF-53 pages

• U.S. & states: Annual Homeless Assessment Report (2007) [HUD]

• U.S. & states: Homelessness Counts (2007)

• Recent reports: NCH Reports and Papers--many links

• Orange County: Orange County Community Indicators: 2006 - See section titled SPECIAL FEATURE: Homeless in Orange County, pages 12-14

• Recent reports: Poverty and Homelessness [HUD Publications]

• Veterans: Federal Benefits to Veterans and their Dependents, 2006 (2006)

• Statistics: Homeless Counts in Major US Cities and Counties: 2005 PDF-4 pages

• Background & overview—U.S.: Hunger and Homelessness Survey 2005- A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America’s Cities: A 24-City Survey PDF-105 pages

  This report includes information on: emergency food assistance (by city, demographics, quality and quantity of resources, unmeet needs); causes of hunger in the US; causes of homelessness; emergency shelter requests (by city, percentage as families); demographics of homeless persons; length of homeless episodes; funding of homeless services; an overview of services (transitional housing, single room occupancy); and more. An overview of hunger and homeless trends over 16 years, as well as expected future trends are given. 

• Family shelters—Los Angeles: Operating at Capacity: Family Shelters in Los Angeles County (2006) PDF-74 pages

  Examines family emergency shelter and transitional housing programs in LA County. Included are:  characteristics of homeless families (size and living situations), an overview of family shelters (programs, over capacity, shelter demand, geographic distribution), program characteristics (admission requirements, length of stays), client characteristics (causes of homelessness, prior living situation, exit situation), special needs populations (children, health status of household head), and trends in homeless families.  Also included are program recommendations on preventing homelessness, admission policies, and supportive services. 

• Housing data including affordability: The State of the Nation's Housing 2006 [Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University]  

  The report includes data on: market conditions (mortgage and vacancy rates, rents, home ownership rates, construction), affordability (percentage of income spent on housing, percentage of Americans facing burden, and demographics (income level, race/ethnicity, household composition, immigrant status, regions of poverty).  Selected historic data is also provided.

• Background & overview—Pasadena: City of Pasadena 2006 Homeless Count: Final Report. Demographic data is given on: numbers of homeless persons, gender, race/ethnicity, age, and family composition. Special populations examined include: those chronically homeless, low income households, the mentally ill, victims of domestic violence, substance abusers and veterans. 

• Background & overview—Los Angeles: CalWORKS Homeless Families (2005) PDF-37 pages
• Background & overview—Los Angeles: Homeless in LA (2004) PDF-136 pages
• Background & overview—California: Addressing Long-Term Homelessness (2003) [CRB] PDF-86 pages
• Background & overview—U.S.: "Ending Homelessness," CQ Researcher, June 18, 2004
• Prevention—U.S.: Strategies for Reducing Chronic Homelessness: Final Report (2004) PDF-348 pages
• Prevention—U.S.: Ending Chronic Homelessness: Strategies for Action (2003)
• Cities: Hunger and Homelessness Survey: A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities, 2003 [survey of 25 cities including Los Angeles] PDF-121 pages

Online: Gale Virtual Reference Library [CSUF only]

Homelessness: A Sourcebook
5th FLOOR SOUTH  HV4505 .F36 1994 CATALOG RECORD

Education and Sociology: An Encyclopedia
REFERENCE LC189.95 .E38 2002 page 371: "Homeless Children & Youth" CATALOG RECORD

Encyclopedia of American Social History
Note: See Transients, Migrants, and the Homeless (Volume 3 page 2143)
REFERENCE  HN57 .E58 1993 Vol. 1-3 CATALOG RECORD

Encyclopedia of Family Life
REFERENCE  HQ534 .E53 1999 Vol. 1-5 CATALOG RECORD

Encyclopedia of Modern American Social Issues
REFERENCE  HN57 .K73 1997 CATALOG RECORD

Encyclopedia of Psychology
REFERENCE  BF31 .E52 2000 Vol. 1-8 CATALOG RECORD

Encyclopedia of Social Issues
REFERENCE  HN57 .E59 1997 Vol. 1-6 CATALOG RECORD

Encyclopedia of Sociology
REFERENCE  HM425 .E5 2000 Vol. 1-5 CATALOG RECORD

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
REFERENCE  H41 .I58 2001  v. 1-26 CATALOG RECORD 

Statistics—Print      top

• Statistical Portrait of the United States: Social Conditions and Trends (2002)  CATALOG RECORD
• See ENCYCLOPEDIAS above.

Statistics—Online      top

• Recent--U.S.--California--Orange County--statistics: Third Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (2008) PDF-144 pages

• U.S.--statistics: "Chronic homeless population down 15%, U.S. says." Los Angeles Times, July 30, 2008. Available full text in database LexisNexis Academic.
• Cities: Hunger and Homelessness Survey (December 2007) PDF-72 pages [city profiles of homelessness including Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and San Francisco]
• Los Angeles County: Dying without Dignity: Homeless Deaths in Los Angeles County: 2000-2007 PDF-44 pages (2008)
  Nature and prevalence of death among homeless individuals from 2000 to 2007 in LA County. Demographics (ethnicity, gender, age), causes of deaths, geographic distribution and more. Comparisons to other major metro areas. Policy recommendations on preventing deaths among homeless in LA County.
• U.S. & states: Homelessness Counts (2007)
• Los Angeles County: Homelessness in Los Angeles County (Nov. 2007) PDF-10 pages
• Homeless Factsheets [NCH]
• Homelessness FAQ's 
• Facts About Homelessness [SAMHSA]
• Mental Health & Homelessness
• Census 2000: Census 2000 Report on Shelters (2001)    
       Emergency and Transitional Shelter Population: Census 2000
        [statistics for U.S., California, Los Angeles/Orange County]
       Press Release
       PDF-24 pages
• Census 2000: Population in Emergency and Transitional Shelters: 2000 PDF-14 pages
       Statistics for U.S., states, counties, and census tracts. Scroll down to
        California and then Los Angeles County or Orange County.

• Statistics--major cities: Homeless Countes in Major US Cities and Counties: 2005 PDF-4 pages

• Orange County & Los Angeles estimates: "Counting the Homeless Is a High-Stakes Numbers Game," Los Angeles Times, June 24, 2006.

• Cities: Hunger and Homelessness Survey 2005- A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America’s Cities: A 24-City Survey PDF-105 pages

  This report includes information on: emergency food assistance (by city, demographics, quality and quantity of resources, unmeet needs); causes of hunger in the US; causes of homelessness; emergency shelter requests (by city, percentage as families); demographics of homeless persons; length of homeless episodes; funding of homeless services; an overview of services (transitional housing, single room occupancy); and more. An overview of hunger and homeless trends over 16 years, as well as expected future trends are given. 

• Cities & Counties: Homeless Counts in Major US Cities and Counties PDF-4 pages

  Number of homeless people, including families and chronically homeless individuals, in 54 major US cities and counties.  

• Los Angeles County: "County's Homeless Number 90,000" [LA County], Los Angeles Times, June 16, 2005.  

• Housing data including affordability: The State of the Nation's Housing 2006 [Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University]  

  The report includes data on: market conditions (mortgage and vacancy rates, rents, home ownership rates, construction), affordability (percentage of income spent on housing, percentage of Americans facing burden, and demographics (income level, race/ethnicity, household composition, immigrant status, regions of poverty).  Selected historic data is also provided.

Following is a list of recent books. To find more books in Pollak Library, search the Library Catalog by Subject.         Subject: homeless         Subject: homeless persons united states     To sort by year of publication: While viewing a list of results, click on Limit/Sort and then Sort results by year.

• U.S. & states: Homelessness Counts (2007)

• Background & overview—U.S.: Hunger and Homelessness Survey 2005- A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America’s Cities: A 24-City Survey PDF-105 pages

  This report includes information on: emergency food assistance (by city, demographics, quality and quantity of resources, unmeet needs); causes of hunger in the US; causes of homelessness; emergency shelter requests (by city, percentage as families); demographics of homeless persons; length of homeless episodes; funding of homeless services; an overview of services (transitional housing, single room occupancy); and more. An overview of hunger and homeless trends over 16 years, as well as expected future trends are given. 

• Prevention—U.S.: Strategies for Reducing Chronic Homelessness: Final Report (2004) PDF-348 pages
• Recent reports: Housing & Homelessness [United Way of Greater Los Angeles]
• Recent reports: Homelessness Publications [SAMHSA]
• Cities: Hunger and Homelessness Survey: A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in Americas Cities, 2003 [survey of 25 cities including Los Angeles] PDF-121 pages
• Mental health & homelessness: Mental Health & Homelessness
• How Homeless are Counted: Guide for Counting Unsheltered Homeless Persons (2004) PDF-78 pages
• Reckoning with Homelessness (2003) CATALOG RECORD
• The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space (2003) CATALOG RECORD
• Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program (2002) CATALOG RECORD
• Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities: 2002 PDF-141 pages
• Homelessness: Improving Program Coordination and Client Access to Programs (2002) PDF-16 pages
  .
• African-American Children Who have Experienced Homelessness: Risk, Vulnerability, and Resilience (1998) CATALOG RECORD
• Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness (1989) CATALOG RECORD
• Emergency and Transitional Shelter Population 2000 (2001) [statistics for U.S., California, Los Angeles/Orange County] PDF-24 pages
• Homeless Mothers: Face to Face with Women and Poverty (2000) CATALOG RECORD
• Homelessness: Programs and the People They Serve: Highlights (1999) HTML | CATALOG RECORD
• Homelessness: Programs and the People They Serve: Technical Report (1999) HTML | CATALOG RECORD
• Homelessness: Programs and the People They Serve: Summary (1999) HTML | CATALOG RECORD
• Impact of Multiple Childhood Trauma on Homeless Runaway Adolescents (1999)  CATALOG RECORD
• In From the Cold: A Tool Kit for Creating Safe Havens for Homeless People on the Street
• Men on the Move (1940)  CATALOG RECORD
• Outcasts on Main Street (1992) Summary | CATALOG RECORD
• Practical Lessons: The 1998 National Symposium on Homelessness Research
• Priority Home! The Federal Plan to Break the Cycle of Homelessness (1994)  CATALOG RECORD
• Skid Row: An Introduction to Disaffiliation (1973) CATALOG RECORD
• Skid Row, U.S.A. (1956) CATALOG RECORD

California & Orange County—Online

• Recent reports--Los Angeles: Housing & Homelessness [United Way LA]

• Recent report (L.A.)--2008 Report Card on Homelessness in L.A. County (2008) PDF-22 pages

• Recent report (L.A.)--Unsheltered: A Report on Homelessness in South Los Angeles (2008) PDf-52 pages

• Recent--U.S.--California--Orange County--statistics: Third Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (2008) PDF-144 pages

• Recent report--California--homeless youths: Homeless Youth: Bibliography and Resources (2008) [CRB] PDF-62 pages

• Recent report (L.A.)--Policing Our Way Out of Homelessness? PDF-51 pages (2007)

• Recent report (L.A.)--A Reality Based Approach to End Homelessness in Los Angeles PDF-8 pages (2007)

• Recent report (L.A.)--Ending Homelessness in Los Angeles PDF-28 pages (2007)

• Opinion article--L.A. Times: "L.A.'s Homeless: A Progress Report" / Jennifer Wolch, June 22, 2008. Available full text in database ProQuest Newspapers.

• Recent report--Los Angeles County: Changes in Homelessness, Supportive Housing, and Tenant Characteristics Since 2005 PDF-31 pages

• California--homeless youths: Voices from the Street: A Survey of Homeless Youth by Their Peers (2008) PDF-133 pages

• Cities: Hunger and Homelessness Survey (December 2007) PDF-72 pages [city profiles of homelessness including Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and San Francisco]

• Los Angeles County: Dying without Dignity: Homeless Deaths in Los Angeles County: 2000-2007 PDF-44 pages (2008)
  Nature and prevalence of death among homeless individuals from 2000 to 2007 in LA County. Demographics (ethnicity, gender, age), causes of deaths, geographic distribution and more. Comparisons to other major metro areas. Policy recommendations on preventing deaths among homeless in LA County.

• California: Educational Success of Homeless Youth in California: Challenges and Solutions (2007)

• Los Angeles County: Homelessness in Los Angeles County (Nov. 2007) PDF-10 pages

• Los Angeles: Homeless in Los Angeles  

• Los Angeles: 2007 Homeless Count Report (Los Angeles) (2007)

• Los Angeles: Policing Our Way Out of Homelessness? The First Year of the Safer Cities Initiative on Skid Row (Los Angeles) [UCLA] (2007) PDF-53 pages

• Los Angeles:  "Homeless head downtown; After months of declines, the number of people sleeping on streets in the area rises sharply in LAPD count."  Los Angeles Times[HOME EDITION]. Apr 4, 2007. pg. B.1

• U.S. & states: Annual Homeless Assessment Report (2007) [HUD]

• U.S. & states: Homelessness Counts (2007)

• Orange County: Orange County Community Indicators: 2006 - See section titled SPECIAL FEATURE: Homeless in Orange County, pages 12-14.

• Statistics--major cities & counties: Homeless Countes in Major US Cities and Counties: 2005 PDF-4 pages

• Recent reports--southern California: Housing & Homelessness [United Way of Greater Los Angeles]

• Statistics—54 major U.S. cities and counties: Homeless Counts in Major US Cities and Counties, December 2005 2005 PDF-4 pages  

• Statistics—Los Angeles County: "County's Homeless Number 90,000" [LA County], Los Angeles Times, June 16, 2005.  For full text, search Los Angeles Times by Article Title.
• Statistics—Pasadena: City of Pasadena 2006 Homeless Count: Final Report. Demographic data is given on: numbers of homeless persons, gender, race/ethnicity, age, and family composition. Special populations examined include: those chronically homeless, low income households, the mentally ill, victims of domestic violence, substance abusers and veterans. 
• Background & overview—Pasadena: The City of Pasadena 2005 Homeless Count: Final Report (sex, race/ethnicity data) PDF-13 pages
• Background & overview—Los Angeles: Homeless in LA (2004) PDF-136 pages
• Background & overview—California: Addressing Long-Term Homelessness (2003) [CRB] PDF-86 pages
• Cities: Hunger and Homelessness Survey: A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in Americas Cities, 2003 [survey of 25 cities including Los Angeles] PDF-121 pages
• Addressing Long-Term Homelessness (2003) [CRB] PDF-86 pages
• Recommendation of the Interagency Task Force on Homelessness (2002) PDF-105 pages
• Emergency and Transitional Shelter Population 2000 (2001) [statistics for U.S., California, Los Angeles/Orange County] PDF-24 pages
• Children: Homeless Children [California]
• "The Region; Housing, Job Pinch Increases O.C.'s Homeless; Economy: Experts say the ranks are up 17% in a year," Los Angeles Times, Home Edition, August 16, 2002, Page B-7.
• Orange County Community Indicators [ANNUAL] 
       Print: CATALOG RECORD
       Online: INTERNET VERSION (1999-2004 editions) [While viewing report, 
               use Edit/FIND to go to homeless]

California & Orange County—Print

Following is a list of recent articles and books. To find additional books, search the Library Catalog:      Keyword: homeless and california

• "County's Homeless Number 90,000" [LA County], Los Angeles Times, June 16, 2005.  
• "California Is 'Meanest' State for Homeless" [statistics], Los Angeles Times, August 6, 2003.
• "Homeless population burgeons: An increasing number of O.C. families are being priced out of the apartment market," [statistics] Orange County Register, Monday, August 4, 2003, News page 1.
• "O.C. Homeless Count Up 6% Survey: Estimates Put This Year's Population at 19,740." Los Angeles Times, Friday, June 1, 2001, page B3.
• Characteristic Differences Between Single Men, Single Women, and Women With Children in Orange County, California [Masters Thesis, CSUF] (1993) CATALOG RECORD
• Orange County Community Indicators [ANNUAL] 
       PRINT: CATALOG RECORD
       ONLINE: INTERNET VERSION (1999-2004 editions) [Use EDIT/Find to go
                 to homeless]
• Educating Homeless Children: Witness To A Cataclysm [California] (1999) CATAes: Issue Papers on Housing Topics (1997)  CATALOG RECORD
• "Inside Story: Specters on the Street," Los Angeles Times Magazine, Home Edition, Sept. 17, 2000, p. 16.
• Legislative Review of Homeless Programs (1995) CATALOG RECORD
• The Right Home in the Right Place at the Right Time: California's Regional and Statewide Challenges of Housing Availability (1999) CATALOG RECORD
• Surviving the Streets: Girls Living on Their Own (1997) CATALOG RECORD