Los Angeles does not have enough housing for all of its residents, especially families with average or below-average incomes. The city has up-zoned many neighborhoods, with another up-zoning now underway, to allow construction of over 1.5 million new housing units.Los Angeles has very little...

The Greater Los Angeles Homeless Counts from 2007 through 2017 are viewed as a body of work rather than discrete annual snapshots and assesses the extent to which the Counts present a consistent body of evidence and the extent to which there are inconsistencies among Counts, or with other data,...

The San Pedro Bay ports are the gateway for 40 percent of goods imported into the United States. They are legally mandated to provide economic and environmental benefits for Californians. In recent times the American factories and jobs that were supported by the ports have closed and been...

This report analyzes 25 million records for the entire population of residents who experienced homelessness in Santa Clara County at any point from 2007 to 2012 – a total of 104,206 individuals. This information includes the demographic and medical attributes of each person, justice system...

The triage tool, or crisis indicator, identifies homeless individuals in hospitals and jails who have continuing crises in their lives that create very high public costs. The tool is developed for use in jails, hospitals and clinics where homeless individuals with high levels of need and high...

In priciple random portfolios should be uniformly distributed over the feasible region. Common algorithms tend to concentrate portfolios near the boundary. While there is an argument that this may actually be better than a uniform distribution, it is of interest to know what difference the...