With my stellar research team colleagues (Alycia Cheng, Melany De La Cruz-Viesca, and Vinit Mukhija), we presented our preliminary findings on our study on housing instability and precarity among Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs) in California at the UCLA AAPI Policy Summit on March 8, 2024 at the Luskin Conference Center at UCLA. This summit was cosponsored by the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, the California API Legislative Caucus, and the California Commission on Asian & Pacific Islander American Affairs. There were over 200 attendees including community organizations, students, advocates, elected officials, faculty, and academic institution administrators.
The panelists for the session on "AAPI Hidden Homelessness" included California Assemblymember Phil Ting, Joyce Pisnanont of National CAPACD, myself, and moderator Lisa Hasegawa of NeighborWorks.
Photo courtesy of Alycia Cheng
We presented some initial findings from our research:
There are substantial gaps, especially in particular counties in California between the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Point-In-Time (PIT) counts of homeless populations (which are conducted every year for sheltered homeless populations and every 2 years for unsheltered homeless populations; these counts are used for federal fund allocation) and the California Department of Education (DoE) counts of homeless PK-12th grade students in California public schools. (The chart below shows the large and sometimes very large gaps between the HUD PIT count of homeless AANHPI individuals younger than 25 years and the California DOE counts of homeless Asian, Filipino, and Pacific Islander homeless students in the PK-12th grade system for the eleven counties in California with the largest AANHPI populations.)
Graph created by Alycia Cheng
2. This gap between HUD PIT counts (which again are used for federal fund allocation for homelessness services) and CA DOE counts are because the state's DoE counts "temporary doubling up" as homeless. In contrast, HUD considers temporary doubling up as "risk of homelessness," not being homeless. (The red boxes below show California Asian, Filipino, and Pacific Islander students who say they are living in "temporary shelters" or "temporarily doubled up" -- the takeaway here is that very large proportions across all racial/ethnic groups reporting that they are homeless students in California public schools report that they are temporarily doubled up.)
Table created by Alycia Cheng
Our team is finishing up its analysis and will be reporting its final results in a month or so. I will summarize our findings and recommendations in a future blog. Thank you again to AAPI Data/UC Riverside for supporting this research!
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