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Nowhere to go, but still here: A data-driven look at displacement & homelessness in Santa Cruz
Come join researchers, service providers, and others from your community at the Watsonville Public Library for a conversation about the experiences of unhoused individuals in our region and the implications for local homelessness response efforts.
Our panel will focus on why unhoused people choose—or are forced—to stay in particular locations. Drawing on interviews with service providers and over 170 surveys with unhoused individuals, we present a data-informed look at the drivers of movement among people experiencing homelessness, including safety, law enforcement, and environmental hazards. We will highlight the ways displacement pushes many unsheltered people into a constant state of movement—shuffled from sidewalks to riverbeds and forests, and then back to sidewalks again - and explore how this cycle of movement increases environmental hazard risks, separates people from crucial services, and disrupts the stability needed to build pathways out of homelessness.
Organized by members of the Housing + Habitat Survey team at UCSC's Center for Urban and Environmental Studies.
Attendance is free and light food and refreshments will be provided. Please register ahead of time using the link below:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nowhere-to-go-but-still-here-surveying-our-unhoused-neighbors-tickets-1312112356379
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Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3011290-0
