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"What Help?" Lessons From California's Largest Homeless Study in Decades

"What Help?" Lessons From California's Largest Homeless Study in Decades

Fifth & Mission


Published: 20 October 2023 at 09:00 Europe/London

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Best of 5M: “This is a story of deep poverty in a state with incredibly high housing costs.” That’s how Dr. Margot Kushel, director of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, describes the takeaway from California’s largest study of homeless adults in three decades. As Kushel, the study's lead investigator, tells host Cecilia Lei, the majority of respondents became homeless in California — and relatively small amounts of money could have prevented it for almost everyone. | Unlimited Chronicle access: sfchronicle.com/pod

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