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Interior of Hulen Place Clinic

Gift to UCR clinic aims to assist local unhoused population

Funding from San Manuel Band of Mission Indians grants greater medical access to low-income residents
By Iqbal Pittalwala | | Health
Aunts and LGBTQ youth- FHAM Project- GettyImages

Aunts, aunties, and ‘tías’ offer protection to their LGBTQ youth relatives

Study on youth from the Inland Empire and South Texas points to how these “othermothers” offer emotional safety, housing stability.
By Sandra Baltazar Martínez | | Social Science / Education
Homelessness

Riverside clinic to address healthcare needs of the homeless

UniHealth Foundation grant to UC Riverside aims to increase the health and well-being of the unhoused population in Riverside County
By Iqbal Pittalwala | | Health
homeless

UCR experts: Newsom's CARE courts an 'oxymoron'

Experts on the plight of the unhoused contend the plan would criminalize being poor and mentally ill
By Holly Ober & John Warren | | Social Science / Education
A family stands in front of a house

How do non-parental family members affect LGBTQ youth housing stability?

A study set in the Inland Empire and South Texas aims to find out
By Holly Ober | | Social Science / Education
Anti-homeless bench with colors of the LGBTQ pride flag from the cover of "Coming Out to the Streets," published by UC Press

“I just don’t think shelters work”

Institutions, not only family rejection, underlie LGBTQ youth homelessness
By Holly Ober | | Social Science / Education