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What Do People Experiencing Homelessness Need?, Marisa Zapata
What Do People Experiencing Homelessness Need?, Marisa Zapata
Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative Publications and Presentations
This is an opinion piece about a survey in Portland that reveals profound racial disparities even in basic answers about where people sleep.
Urban Green Space: Mitigator Or Multiplier Of Inequality In The Denver Metropolitan Area?, Joshua Charles Baldwin
Urban Green Space: Mitigator Or Multiplier Of Inequality In The Denver Metropolitan Area?, Joshua Charles Baldwin
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Studies have shown that communities of color and low-income populations are likely to live in neighborhoods that lack access to quality green spaces, unable to directly benefit from the environmental, recreational, and cultural services they provide. The goal of this research was to determine if the green space inequality patterns seen globally and nationally exist in the Denver Metropolitan Area. Using an existing green space dataset, ecosystem services fieldwork, GIS digitizing, and bivariate correlation analysis I uncovered numerous green space inequalities based on proximity, acreage, and quality. Key findings included 1) Lakewood’s Hispanic and less-educated populations have relatively little access …
Survey On Needs Of People Living Unsheltered, Marisa Zapata, Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative, Joint Office Of Homeless Services, Shannon Singleton, Street Roots
Survey On Needs Of People Living Unsheltered, Marisa Zapata, Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative, Joint Office Of Homeless Services, Shannon Singleton, Street Roots
Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative Publications and Presentations
Portland State University’s Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative worked with the Joint Office of Homeless Services, Shannon Singleton, and Street Roots to survey people who are living unsheltered to better understand their needs. Because of the racial disparities that we know exist, we set out to create and administrate a survey that would also ask these questions with a focus on people of color.
In all, 383 people took the rapidly deployed and quickly crafted survey over the course of two weeks. Nearly 40% of those surveyed identified as people of color with the highest representation among Black people and …