Homelessness Hub is a leader in non-partisan and unbiased research undertaken to support policy, program, and systems innovation and change. Because homelessness is, at its core, a lack of stable housing, our research ranges from evaluations of existing homelessness programming to identifying methods for supporting affordable housing development. Much of our research also focuses on spatial visualizations and analyses given the importance of location and distance in homelessness service delivery. We work closely with community stakeholders, including people with lived experience of homelessness and frontline experience in housing and homeless services, in order to produce actionable, applied research products.
Homelessness Hub conducts research by contract with funders who wish to evaluate specific programs or processes or produce data, conduct analyses, and develop infographics to understand outcomes. Other projects are developed internally or in partnership with community stakeholders and funded by philanthropy, research foundations, and government grants.
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September 2026
This report is an examination of the individual-level experiences of 30 survivors who navigated DV resources through the homelessness and DV service ecosystems in San Diego County.
Read the report →June 2026
This report is one in an ongoing series about homelessness service provision and access in San Diego County, conducted by Homelessness Hub at UC San Diego. The Homelessness Hub research team continues to release reports on the existing shelter and services ecosystem in San Diego County to better understand how our region can improve program outcomes and move more people into permanent housing.
Read the report →March 2026
This report underscores the importance of five vital elements for the adoption and implementation of evidence-based practices in San Diego:
Read the report →February 2026
Homelessness Hub at UC San Diego conducted an exploratory investigation into the San Diego region's ecosystem of emergency and temporary housing and services for veterans experiencing homelessness (VEH).
Read the report →October 2025
Many individuals with histories of addiction find themselves caught up in a churn, cycling repeatedly between justice involvement and homelessness.
Read the report →April 2025
From 2021 through 2023 we studied social isolation among SRO residents living in San Diego, California by interviewing 55 residents and inviting 10 tenants to take photographs of their units and buildings that illustrated how they feel about their housing, specifically how they feel their housing impacts their sense of social isolation.
Read the report →March 2025
We interviewed 55 residents about their experiences living in SROs and invited 10 of those tenants to take photographs of their units and buildings to illustrate their feelings about their housing. Given that many SRO residents are elderly or have disabilities, they are more likely to be both economically vulnerable and prone to accessibility challenges.
Read the report →September 2024
Between October 2023 and June 2024, researchers at the Homelessness Hub at UC San Diego and staff at Humble Design San Diego (Humble SD) engaged in a collaborative effort to analyze Humble SD's human-centered home design intervention, which involves providing free custom design and furnishing services to individuals and families transitioning out of homelessness.
Read the report →September 2024
In this report we provide analyses of affordable housing residents' travel patterns and needs to shed light on the ways that transportation affordability and accessibility might be improved.
Read the report →June 2024
This report is one in an ongoing series about homelessness services provision and access in San Diego County, carried out by Homelessness Hub at UC San Diego with input and support from the Regional Task Force on Homelessness, San Diego's Continuum of Care. The Homelessness Hub research team has designed a detailed and comprehensive inventory and assessment of the existing shelter and services ecosystem in San Diego County to understand how our region can improve program outcomes and move more people into permanent housing.
Read the report →November 2023
Strategically, we aligned with organizations varying in their operational magnitude, funding mechanics, methodologies, and clientele focus. Specifically, we encompassed entities with diverse financial backings, ranging from sizable government grants to community donations, and those specializing in catering to niche client demographics or who offer general assistance.
Read the report →October 2023
This study compliments local research efforts by documenting the causes and consequences of housing precarity in southeast San Diego, with a particular focus on housing instability for racial minority, immigrant, and refugee renters.
Read the report →September 2023
This evaluative study addresses the gap between research that links evictions with adolescence health problems and research that has not evaluated the effectiveness of community education initiatives by focusing on a tenant educational program in San Diego, California. The Know Your Rights workshops, referred to as KYR for the remainder of this report, were part of the City of San Diego Eviction Prevention Program.
Read the report →August 2023
To better understand how transit agencies are (or are not) addressing the travel needs of homeless populations, we reviewed policies and programs from twelve transit agencies in California, and interviewed transit representatives from four agencies, including two of the state's largest (i.e., Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LA Metro)).
Read the report →June 2023
The Jewish Family Service Safe Parking Program (JFS SPP) provides a valuable alternative to the shelter system for those people who have a vehicle. For clients who work, the JFS SPP allows them to more easily hold onto their most valuable resource (their vehicle) while they save enough to move into housing. For clients who do not or cannot work, the JFS SPP provides a sense of safety and privacy that they feel they lack in a shelter.
Read the report →April 2023
This research synthesis draws attention to the ways that transit agencies can serve the mobility needs of unhoused riders, a population which historically may have not been included in their planning processes. This synthesis is divided into four sections, summarized below.
Read the report →January 2022
This report summarizes the research findings of a two-year evaluation of the Safe Parking Program (SPP) run by Jewish Family Service of San Diego which operates its program on four separate lots in San Diego County.
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