More than Spare Change: A Case Study of Contact and Voter Support for the Homeless in Los Angeles County, California

Laniyonu, Ayobami; Byerly, Shakari

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“…Differences in perceived prevalence can also change support for locally sourced funding by altering types of housing contexts that would receive support (Laniyonu and Byerly 2021). Past research suggests altering the definition of homelessness can significantly change its incidence and prevalence in minority groups, meaning definitions could have disparate impacts (Fitzgerald, Shelley and Dail 2001).…”

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What Does it Mean to be Homeless? How Definitions Affect Homelessness Policy

Sullivan

2022

Urban Affairs Review

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Government agencies use varying criteria in defining homelessness. While scholars debate over and use different definitions of homelessness, little research has explored the impacts the definition has on perceived problem severity and the types of communities receiving aid. I first explore four definitions of child and youth homelessness used by United States’ federal agencies. I then use panel data for school districts, which report homelessness by subgroup, to analyze how the definition of homelessness changes its prevalence and leads to disparate impacts. I find the definition of homelessness including students living doubled-up leads to a higher growth rate. Definitions also change which districts have high rates of homelessness and characteristics of these districts, suggesting resources following students experiencing homelessness go to different types of communities. Scholars should consider how a problem is defined, differences in the measurement used between studies, and how the definition affects where resources go.

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What Does it Mean to be Homeless? How Definitions Affect Homelessness Policy

Sullivan

2022

Urban Affairs Review

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“…In 2016, voters passed Measure H (LA County) and Proposition HHH (City of LA) to fund homeless services, shelter expansion, and affordable housing construction. This support for expanded poverty management strategies reflects a compassionate homeless policy landscape supported by the votes of more liberal residents (Laniyonu and Byerly 2021), which is juxtaposed by spatial banishment efforts in the city. 16 Since early on, anti-homeless legislation has been pervasive in LA and continues to impact and be contested by activists.…”

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“The Echoes of Echo Park”: Anti-Homeless Ordinances in Neo-Revanchist Cities

Giamarino

Loukaitou‐Sideris

2023

Urban Affairs Review

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This article focuses on national and local anti-homeless ordinances and investigates emerging spatial banishment strategies and their impacts on unhoused folks’ basic freedoms. First, we review debates on co-existing geographies of punishment and care through theoretical and legal lenses. Focusing on sixteen cities in the United States, we examine categories of anti-homeless ordinances and their evolution in the past two decades. Next, we focus on Los Angeles and use archival research and interviews with activists to examine the expansion of newly emerging anti-homeless spaces. Our research details ad hoc strategies of spatial banishment targeting homelessness. We find that the city represents a fragmented landscape of “no-go-zones” for the unhoused. We posit that the COVID-19 pandemic enabled various spatial banishment strategies and that Los Angeles is neo-revanchist. We advocate for city policies that abolish spatial banishment strategies and respond to the needs of the unhoused.

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Mass Beliefs about the Working Poor and Support for Redistributive Policies

Newman

2024

Public Opinion Quarterly

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Past research demonstrates that the working poor are politically relevant, yet little is known about public opinion toward this group. This research note explores public beliefs about working poverty in the United States. The results suggest that most Americans are aware of the working poor and view working poverty as problematic and due to structural factors. Like many political attitudes, beliefs about the working poor are linked to Americans’ personal experiences—namely, their level of local exposure to low-income people. However, consistent with research on the role of race in shaping the politics of poverty and inequality, the linkage between local low-income populations and beliefs about the working poor is conditioned by the race of the local poor. Finally, the political relevance of beliefs about the working poor is illustrated by their substantively large relationships to preferences over spending on the poor and taxing the rich.

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More than Spare Change: A Case Study of Contact and Voter Support for the Homeless in Los Angeles County, California

Cited by 4 publications

References 51 publications

What Does it Mean to be Homeless? How Definitions Affect Homelessness Policy

What Does it Mean to be Homeless? How Definitions Affect Homelessness Policy

“The Echoes of Echo Park”: Anti-Homeless Ordinances in Neo-Revanchist Cities

Mass Beliefs about the Working Poor and Support for Redistributive Policies

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