Executive Summary - IN CALIFORNIA, more than 171,000 people experience homelessness daily. California is home to 12% of the nation’s

We adminis- Homelessness (CASPEH), the largest tered questionnaires to nearly 3,200 representative study of homelessness participants, selected intentionally to since the mid-1990s and the first large- provide a representative sample, and scale representative study to use mixed weighted data to provide statewide methods (surveys and in-depth interviews). [...] for a mental health condition; 56% of these hospital- izations occurred prior to the first instance of ▛ The homeless population is aging, and homelessness. [...] Nine out of ten participants lost their last housing in California; 75% of participants lived in the same county as PATHWAYS TO HOMELESSNESS their last housing. [...] Twenty-one percent of lease- going to lose their housing, while non-leaseholders holders cited a loss of income as the main reason that reported a median of one day. [...] Some of the disconnection may have been help them cope with the circumstances of home- related to the lack of job opportunities during the lessness.