Arturo Baiocchi

• PhD Sociology
• Professor (Associate) at California State University, Sacramento

Objective: This study explores student perceptions of their academics and mental health during their participation in the College-Focused Rapid Rehousing (CFRRH) program. Participants: Nineteen students at two universities in California from diverse backgrounds participated in the study. Methods: In-depth interviews were analyzed using a constructi...

Research indicates that financial and housing insecurity challenges are widespread on most college campuses throughout the U.S. However, there is wide variability in how campuses address these challenges. This study reports on a three-year implementation of the College-Focused Rapid Rehousing pilot; an initiative in California by which universities...

This report summarizes the results of the 2022 Sacramento Point-in-Time Count--an extensive community effort to document every individual in the county experiencing homelessness on a single night. Most communities conduct a Homeless Point-in-Time Count every two years, during the last week of January, to fulfill a federal funding requirement from t...

In response to a growing crisis of homelessness across the State of California, Senate Bill 850 (2018) established the Homeless Emergency Aid Program (HEAP) to provide $500 million for flexible block grants to help communities address the substantial rise in homelessness. The program awarded 54 one- time block grants to 43 Continuums of Care (CoCs)...

In 2018, Senate Bill 850 established the Homeless Emergency Aid Program (HEAP), which allocated $500 million in one-time block grants to assist localities across California improve their response to homelessness. This report is the first in a series that explores how communities have leveraged HEAP funding the last two years to address specific gap...

Background Evidence on the effectiveness of programs serving unaccompanied youth experiencing homelessness remains limited and mixed, and we know little about the factors that contribute to participant engagement and program implementation across contexts. Objective In this meta-synthesis of current findings on youth interventions, we explore the...

This report summarizes the implementation and evaluation of a federally funded three-year pilot project in Sacramento County called the Strategies for Policing Innovations-Homeless Outreach Team (SPI-HOT). Faced with a rapid growth in homelessness in the community—an increase of 45% just in the last five years—and increasing community pressure to r...

The Homeless Emergency Aid Program (HEAP) was established by Senate Bill 850 (2018) as a response to the severe housing and homelessness crisis facing California. The initiative allotted within the State’s 2018-19 budget a $500 million, one-time, flexible set of block grants to help local communities throughout the state address the substantial ris...

The UC Davis Center for Healthcare Policy and Research has published a new report outlining options for innovative, coordinated care programs for people experiencing chronic homelessness. Funded by the California Health Care Foundation, this report examines the situation for homeless individuals in Sacramento County and summarizes the current lands...

Research Brief Problem The Sacramento community is seeking solutions to help people exit from homelessness. This brief summarizes findings from a larger report that presents recommendations based on data about the Sacramento homeless population and services available to them; local stakeholder observations about care quality and access; national mo...

This chapter introduces a basic typology for identifying key narratives of homelessness that permeate contemporary American social culture. What the sociologist Teresa Gowan aptly describes as sin-talk, sick-talk, and system-talk represents common caricatures of homelessness heard by the media, professionals, and the homeless themselves. Drawing fr...

Every two years Sacramento County and its incorporated cities undertake an extensive effort to document every individual in the county experiencing homelessness during a twenty-four-hour period. This effort, known as the “Point-in-Time Homeless Count” (Homeless Count), provides a single-night snapshot of nearly all individuals and families staying...

This paper reports on the complex ways in which immigrant young adults make sense of their Americanized ethnic and racial identities. The analysis draws on a large set of in-depth interviews (N = 233) collected with immigrants between the ages of 18 and 29 across three regions in the US (California, New York, and Minnesota) in the early 2000s and i...

This article reports on findings from a representative survey of Californians (N = 946) and their perception of social work and its professionals. Analysis of the survey data indicates that the public holds a generally positive view of social work and its “helping” nature, although social work is considered one of the least prestigious professions....

Assembly Bill (AB) 60 (Stats. 2013, Ch. 524) – the Safe and Responsible Drivers Act – came into effect on January 2015, authorizing the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to issue an original driver license to persons with undocumented legal status in the United States (i.e., undocumented immigrants).1 Before AB 60, the DMV had estimated...

According to bystander theory, factors such as the community environment, collective efficacy, and history of adverse childhood experiences could be related to likelihood of reporting or intervening against maltreatment. An online survey was conducted with 946 general population Californians obtained through mixed-mode random probability and quota-...

Every two years, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) requires local communities to conduct a census of all individuals experiencing homelessness in their region—called the Point-in-Time (PIT) Count—during one night at the end of January. This extensive countywide effort to estimate the local homeless population provides a sna...

A little over a decade ago, ASA past-president Herbert Gans embarked upon an intriguing and, to our knowledge, unprecedented study of bestselling books written by professional sociologists. On the heels of his presidential campaign to make sociology more visible and influential to the lay public, Gans believed such a study would help us better unde...