By Steve McFeely In 2024, Help USA staff placed 1,323 clients into housing—a 6.2% increase compared to 1,246 placements in 2023. This growth occurred despite only a 1.7% increase in […]
Ashwin Parulkar, AVP, Research, HELP USA Kevin Lin[1], Case Manager, New York State Unified Court System Over the past two decades, overdose deaths have increasingly shaped mortality trends among persons […]
From January 1 to October 31, 2024, 26 overdoses – 2.6 per month – occurred in HELP USA shelters (figure 1). In 2023, 55 overdoses – 4.58 per month – […]
This impact evaluation study found that our intervention for young parents at-risk of homelessness – implemented within the homelessness prevention service, Homebase – reduced shelter entry rates of this population. The program, […]
Findings from a survey of people experiencing homelessness at a local government center that serves the unsheltered population. Causes of homelessness in Las Vegas: findings from a survey of people […]
In this brief (link), HELP Research explores why and how asylum-seeking families exit the shelter system. The number of asylum seekers in HELP USA shelters declined by 27 percent from […]
by Ashwin ParulkarSenior Research Specialist Abstract In 2022, 5,645 people experienced homelessness in Las Vegas and 51% were unsheltered (City of Las Vegas, 2023b; HHH, 2022). Las Vegas has the […]
by Ashwin Parulkar and Kathryn Cardone In early June, 81,145 people lived in New York City shelters, marking a 69% increase in the shelter census over the last year, due […]
by Ashwin Parulkar & Kathryn Cardone Abstract Scholars attribute the onset and rise of homelessness in the United States over the last four decades to two economic forces: the increased […]
