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Hosting the 2028 Olympics with Clean Hands: Restoring, Not Displacing, LA’s Unsheltered Residents

September 4, 2024 / By Patrick Burns

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, September 5, 2024
CONTACT: Daniel Flaming, [email protected], (213) 892-8104 Hosting the 2028 Olympics with Clean Hands Restoring, Not Displacing, LA’s Unsheltered Residents LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles’ most glaring flaw as host of the 2028 Olympics is the nation’s largest population of unsheltered homeless individuals living on its streets.

The Work Behind Work: Combatting Homelessness with Jobs

February 15, 2024 / By Patrick Burns

By addressing homelessness as an issue of economic opportunity and human potential, rapid re-employment programs can bring homeless workers back into the labor force and help them thrive.

Photograph of diesel freight truck chassis and containers at the Port of Los Angeles by Daniel Flaming, taken March 10, 2022. Owned by Economic Roundtable, creation of ERt staff.

Exhausting Our Air: Environmental and Human Costs of Diesel Trucks

September 28, 2023 / By Patrick Burns

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, September 28, 2023 Contact: Daniel Flaming, 213-892-8104, [email protected] One billion square feet of warehouse space causes six million tons of emissions a year New heavy-duty trucks must be electric starting January 1, but there is a two year wait to get electricity to recharge the batteries LOS ANGELES – California’s mandates to replace diesel trucks with zero-emission electric trucks will bring cleaner air and better jobs – if they stay on track.

Photograph by Shahbaz Ali "Cars Parked in Front of UNKs Restaurant During Night Time", published on October 11, 2020 on Unsplash.com. Free to use under the Unsplash License. https://unsplash.com/photos/cars-parked-in-front-of-unks-restaurant-during-night-time-Ye_EB-8rz34

Hungry Cooks: Poverty Wages and Homelessness in the Fast Food Industry

May 2, 2023 / By Patrick Burns

Fast food workers make up 11% of all homeless workers in California and 6% of the total homeless population.

Photograph of construction in downtown Los Angeles, amidst a haze of wildfire, by Daniel Flaming, 2022. Owned by Economic Roundtable, creation of ERt staff.

Breaking the Fall: Successful Homeless Interventions in the Covid Pandemic

December 15, 2022 / By Patrick Burns

The United States had eye opening success in preventing homelessness during the surge in pandemic unemployment.

Photograph of Downtown Los Angeles skyline taken and edited by Daniel Flaming, Economic Roundtable, from the ERt office. Owned by Economic Roundtable, creation of ERt staff.

Places for Homes: Where Los Angeles Can Build More Housing

September 19, 2022 / By Patrick Burns

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACTS: Daniel Flaming, [email protected], 213-892-8104
Patrick Burns, [email protected], 213-892-8104 “Los Angeles’s rent-stabilized properties can be a sizable part of the solution to its daunting housing and affordable housing shortages.” Patrick Burns, Senior Researcher, Economic Roundtable Researchers at The Economic Roundtable found that 1.4 million more apartments can be built on Los Angeles’ rent-stabilized properties.

Photograph of container ships at port in San Pedro Bay (Port of Los Angeles and Port of Long Beach) taken by Daniel Flaming, Economic Roundtable, March 10, 2022. Tour of the ports arranged and led by ILWU Coast Committeeman Frank Ponce De Leon. Owned by Economic Roundtable, creation of ERt staff.

Someone Else’s Ocean: Impacts of Foreign Ownership on Dock Jobs and the Economy

June 30, 2022 / By Patrick Burns

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACTS: Daniel Flaming, [email protected], 213-892-8104
Patrick Burns, [email protected], 213-892-8104 “Global shipping corporations are incredibly powerful. Preserving good wages and benefits is a constant struggle, especially for those who don’t have the support of a union. I’d like to see workers treated with respect and dignity, and truly valued.

Image of painting by artist Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), "Still life with fruit basket," painted between 1888-1890, oil on canvas. Original work in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay. This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

Hungry at The Table: A Multi-State Survey of 37,000 Kroger Grocery Store Workers Finds 78% Food Insecure and 14% Homeless

January 11, 2022 / By Patrick Burns

Researchers at The Economic Roundtable and Occidental College found that more than two thirds of Kroger workers struggle to pay for rent and food, due to poverty-level wages and part time schedules. Continued company cost cutting and resulting staff shortages have also threatened worker safety during the pandemic.

Housing Works Honors the Economic Roundtable with the Tom McGuiness Community Leadership Award

May 29, 2021 / By Daniel Flaming

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Saturday, May 29, 2021
CONTACT: Amy Pelch, [email protected], 323.466.0042 How . . .
Housing Works Housing Works
2021 Annual Fundraising Event Housing Works’ Annual Fundraising Event celebrates our collective commitment to ending the revolving door of homelessness by helping people secure and retain safe, decent affordable housing.

Photograph of "Pasadena Job Center, Your Local Source of Labor" Temporary Help Agency (500 N Lake Ave, Pasadena, CA 91101) taken by Daniel Flaming, Economic Roundtable, January 6, 2021. Owned by Economic Roundtable, creation of ERt staff.

603,000 U.S. Workers Predicted to Become Homeless Because of Unemployment in The COVID-19 Recession

January 12, 2021 / By Daniel Flaming

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, January 12, 2021
CONTACT: Daniel Flaming, [email protected], 213-892-8104
Anthony Orlando, [email protected], 909-869-2408 Unemployment in the Pandemic Recession centers on low-wage, part-time jobs and is projected to cause twice as much homelessness as the 2008 Recession LOS ANGELES – COVID-driven loss of jobs and employment income will cause the number of homeless workers to increase each year through 2023.

Image of "Phaethon from the Four Disgracers" by Hendrik Goltzius. Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028. Donated to the Met by the Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953.

Too Big to Govern: Public Balance Sheet for the World’s Largest Store

November 26, 2019 / By Daniel Flaming

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019
CONTACT: Daniel Flaming, [email protected], 213-892-8104 Amazon’s Southern California Warehouse Operations Cost the Public $790 Million Every Year For every $1 in wages paid by Amazon warehouse workers receive $0.24 in public assistance benefits LOS ANGELES – Households in the Los Angeles metro region paid $7.2 billion for packages from Amazon last year.

Anonymous homeless veteran photograph widely used on the Internet without attribution. No results from Google Image Search or TinEye reverse image source.

Early Intervention to Prevent Persistent Homelessness

March 20, 2019 / By Daniel Flaming

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, March 20, 2019
CONTACT: Daniel Flaming, [email protected], 213-892-8104
Aonya McCruiston, [email protected], 310-905-3191 Powerful New Data Tools Predict Homelessness with 75%+ Accuracy First-of-Their-Kind Screening Tools by Economic Roundtable Researchers Can Help 1,400 People Each Month Avoid Long-Term Homelessness and Reduce Public Costs LOS ANGELES – As communities across the country struggle to end homelessness, two new free screening tools from the Economic Roundtable could help thousands of the most vulnerable people get access to the public services they need as soon as they become homeless, or even before they are homeless.

Photograph of Jane Carlen by Economic Roundtable staff, at the ERt "Data Dive" into homeless metadata, July 21 & 22, 2018, Led by Jane Carlen, held at US Campus, Los Angeles, CA.

Data Dive to Study Homelessness

July 9, 2018 / By Daniel Flaming

Volunteer data scientists in Los Angeles and San Francisco will collaborate to answer the question: who experiences homelessness in Los Angeles over the course of a year?

Escape Routes: Meta-Analysis of Homelessness in L.A.

April 24, 2018 / By Daniel Flaming

Early Intervention and Jobs are Key to Stemming Chronic Homelessness in Los Angeles

Photograph of Disneyland Castle by an anonymous photographer, courtesy of Disneyland Resort and the Walt Disney Company. Used across the Internet without attribution.

Working for the Mouse: A Survey of Disneyland Resort Employees

March 4, 2018 / By Daniel Flaming

“I lived in my car for three and a half months.”

Silicon Valley Triage Tool

February 17, 2016 / By Patrick Burns

The Silicon Valley Triage Tool uses demographic, medical and jail information to accurately identify acutely distressed homeless individuals who are most likely to have ongoing high public costs.

Shipping container trucks sit in traffic at the seaport complex in the nation on November 29, 2012 in Long Beach, Calif.

Long Beach Rising: A City that Works for Everyone

October 23, 2015 / By Daniel Flaming

Raising the minimum wage to $15 with enforcement provisions in Long Beach would have a broad stimulus effect on the region and would benefit businesses, workers, and the economy.

Photography by Daniel Flaming, taken in downtown Los Angeles, June 25, 2014. Owned by Economic Roundtable, creation of ERt staff.

All Alone: Antecedents of Chronic Homelessness

August 24, 2015 / By Daniel Flaming

Chronic homelessness continues to grow in L.A. Records of 942,000 L.A. public assistance recipients who experienced homelessness show that 13,000 are newly identified as homeless each month. It is crucial to reduce the feeder pipeline from childhood homelessness into adult chronic homelessness.

Home Not Found: The Cost of Homelessness in Silicon Valley

May 26, 2015 / By Daniel Flaming

The County of Santa Clara released the largest and most comprehensive body of information assembled in the United States to understand the true cost of homelessness. The report, “Home Not Found,” analyzed 25 million public records to identify entrances into and exits from homelessness, and costs to the public.