Can AI help government prevent homelessness?

In Los Angeles County, more than 75,000 people were unhoused on any given night this year. Statewide, homelessness rates in California show little signs of slowing down, but preliminary results from a predictive model suggest that artificial intelligence could play an imperative role in mitigating the situation.

“A critical thing to understand is that most people are not becoming homeless immediately from a leaseholder situation or other situation where they could have been evicted,” said Janey Rountree, executive director of the research institute California Policy Lab at UCLA.

By Kaitlyn Levinson,
Reporter, Route Fifty