CalMatters: UCSF study unpacks root causes of California’s homelessness crisis
A massive UC San Francisco study of California’s worst-in-the-nation homelessness crisis was released Tuesday as Gov. Gavin Newsom and legislative leaders were negotiating details of a new state budget, with homelessness spending as one of the knottiest issues.
“Something goes wrong, and then everything else falls apart,” the study’s lead researcher, Dr. Margot Kushel, the director of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative at UCSF, told the New York Times. “Everything in their life gets worse when they lose their housing: their health, their mental health, their substance use.