Frequently Asked Questions

A: The Homelessness Hub at UC San Diego is a research hub engaging in applied, community-partnered research. We organize and produce data and analyses for use by researchers, students, policymakers, elected officials, business leaders, service providers, stakeholders, and community members.

For more information about our values and vision, please refer to our About Us page. Please take a look through our Ongoing and Completed Research tabs to learn more about specific projects that we have completed in the past or are currently working on.

A: Check out our Get Involved page, where you can stay informed about the current work of homelessness organizations, learn about homelessness oriented classes at UC San Diego if you are a student, and find service groups to volunteer with.

We also have a Homelessness Hub mailing list, which we use to send out newsletters to periodically update our community regarding current projects. Being a part of the mailing list also includes invitations to events held by the Homelessness Hub.

Sign up for our mailing list here, and read up on our previous newsletter at the bottom of our engagement page here. For general inquiries, please email us at homelessnesshub@ucsd.edu .

A: The Homelessness Hub maintains an ArcGIS Hub that functions as a data repository for all things homelessness related, whether that may be data, maps, or more. We also created a spreadsheet compiling publicly available resources from across the nation, ranging from San Diego specific data to national maps. 

Lastly, we have a list of publicly available mapping data layers created by the Homelessness Hub, which you can access here. Layers are organized by category, and include a summary describing its contents.