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About This Study
StudyLA’s Los Angeles Public Opinion Survey is the largest general social survey of any metropolitan area in urban America. The survey provides a unique perspective into the quality -of -life perceptions, personal financial wellbeing, economic concerns, overall life satisfaction, and various civic issues facing Los Angeles residents.
Since 2014, StudyLA has engaged more than 18,000 residents through the survey, resulting in hundreds of thousands of hours of meaningful conversations about the future of the region.
While some questions are unchanged from year to year for the purposes of longitudinal analysis, new questions were added this year to reflect topics relevant to residents. Such topics include the ongoing housing and homelessness crises and how resident perceptions, attitudes, and opinions have changed over time.
The 2021 Los Angeles Public Opinion Survey involved 20 -minute telephone sessions and online and face -to -face surveys with 2,003 adults (845 phone, 911 online, and 247 face -to -face) living in Los Angeles County. The survey was conducted in English, Spanish, Mandarin, and Korean from January 4 to February 15. The margin of error is +/ - 3.0% for the entire sample. More on the methodology for this study can be found in the data brief, available at lmu.edu/studyLA.
For questions about this and other StudyLA research, please contact Associate Director Brianne Gilbert at brianne.gilbert@lmu.edu.
About This Report
This report focuses on the perceptions, attitudes, and opinions of Los Angeles residents on the ongoing housing and homelessness crises. Over the years, residents have been asked a range of questions on several topics, including housing affordability, neighborhood development, the state of homelessness, permanent supportive housing, shelters, and encampments.
This report presents toplines (total responses for each question) and crosstabs (all questions crossed by major demographics) pertaining to substantive questions. Each page indicates which year residents answered each question.
Most questions were asked of the entire sample (n=2,414 in 2014; 2,429 in 2015; 2,425 in 2016; 2,404 in 2017; 2,411 in 2018; 2,008 in 2019; 2,002 in 2020; and 2,003 in 2021) except for the questions on location of new homeless shelters (2019, n=1,006), housing approvals (2019, n=1,006), permanent supportive housing (2018, n=1,209), which sector should address homelessness (2018, n=1,209), and which sector is trusted to address homelessness (2018, n=1,209). These questions were part of batteries that split total respondents into samples. Further, the question about who in the government sector should be held accountable for addressing homelessness was only asked of city of Los Angeles residents (2018, n=1,200).
Publication Date
2021
Disciplines
Political Science
Recommended Citation for Report
Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles. (2021). Public Opinion on Housing and Homelessness. Loyola Marymount University