Homelessness
These geographical entities are encampments at the edge of cities, boarding houses, SROs - areas for migrant workers in late 1800s/early 1900s, later became areas for ‘unemployable’/outcasts after New Deal programs
What are skid rows?
This state is home to five of the ten top eviction large cities in the US (source: Eviction Lab)
What is Virginia?
This regulation allows landlords to reset the rent when a unit becomes vacant.
What is vacancy decontrol?
A program created during the pandemic that uses federal funding to house people experiencing homelessness in CA in hotel rooms. The program targets those who have been infected by or exposed to coronavirus, as well as those who are at high risk of complications, such as older adults and those with underlying health conditions
What is Project Room Key?
Under this Presidential administration in office from 1981-1989, street homelessness exploded around the country.
What is the Reagan Administration?
These tenant protections require a landlord to have a legally valid reason to evict a tenant.
What is just cause?
This is a CA state law passed in 1995 that restricts cities from passing vacancy control and extending rent control to certain units.
What is Costa Hawkins?
This type of housing is a form of emergency shelter featuring longer stays and the availability of services.
What is transitional housing?
HUD created this program (acronym CoC) in 1994 to create local or regional systems for homelessness services and integrated care
What is Continuums of Care?
In 2018, San Francisco voters established this right, which guarantees a free attorney for renters who receive an eviction notice.
CA passed this law in 2019 to establish statewide anti-rent gouging and just cause eviction protections.
What is AB 1482?
This program provides a central point of access into the homelessness response system
What is Coordinated Entry?
This act passed in 1987, named after two Representatives, was the first major federal response to homelessness and resulted in the expansion of emergency shelters and transitional housing by HUD and FEMA among other services
What is McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act?
This 1985 CA state law was the focus of the Asquith article that allows landlords to evict residential tenants if they plan to “leave the rental business”.
What is Ellis Act?
The effect in which properties age and depreciate in quality and price, becoming more affordable to lower-income households. (HUD User)
What is filtering effect?
This type of homelessness program provides immediate assistance to get households inside.
What is emergency shelter?