A “fireside chat” between USC President Carol L. Folt and Mayor Karen Bass reinforces the university’s collaborative work with the city in a united quest to care for the unhoused, whose numbers have increased since COVID.
Homelessness
The move will allow providers like USC’s Street Medicine team to be reimbursed for care they provide to people who are unhoused.
Frank Byrd uses skills learned in USC’s online Executive Master of Urban Planning program to tackle a new role at the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
Social work researchers believe it is within our reach to eliminate homelessness in the United States. Learn how it can be done.
USC President Carol L. Folt joins community leaders at the renovated campus, which includes a USC-run preschool and housing for homeless veterans and their families.
A new grant supports spreading Keck School of Medicine of USC’s successful model to other communities with people who are unsheltered.
In Los Angeles County, 256 homeless people died of COVID-related causes in a 22-month period — a rate more than twice that seen in the general population.
A fast, low-cost study by the USC Price School’s Homelessness Policy Research Institute sheds light on the health and housing preferences of L.A.’s unhoused population.
USC Viterbi students gain funding for products that support portable medicine storage.
USC/RAND study tracks obstacles for military veterans searching for housing. Los Angeles is home to 10% of the nation’s unhoused veterans.