Understanding Who Lives in Cars in Los Angeles County

Brief
Christopher Giamarino | Evelyn Blumenberg | Madeline Brozen
November 2022

Homelessness continues to be an issue of increasing scale across Los Angeles, necessitating research to better understand the diversity within the unhoused population. Notably, much of the existing research on homelessness has focused on unhoused individuals living in shelters and tents but has often overlooked those living in vehicles, despite the fact that this is one of the fastest-growing segments of the unhoused population.