Margot Kushel MD
@mkushel.bsky.social
Physician, researcher. Professor of Medicine at UCSF. Director of @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social and UCSF @arcforhealth.bsky.social. Passionate about ending homelessness. Views my own.
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Margot Kushel MD
@mkushel.bsky.social
· May 29
How a Generation’s Struggle Led to a Record Surge in Homelessness
www.nytimes.com
📣Older adults are the fastest growing group of people experiencing homelessness. This @nytimes.com makes the crisis vivid. Proposed cuts & policy changes will make this problem so much worse. @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social Proud to have contributed 🧵 1/x www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
Reposted by Margot Kushel MD
A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
December 28, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
What would be the real world impacts of the loss of federal funding for Housing First programs? We modeled it: an additional 44,590 ppl beyond anticipated growth due to economic factors. @jabarocas.bsky.social @kirkfetters.bsky.social @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Potential Changes in US Homelessness by Ending Federal Support for Housing First Programs
This decision analytical model estimates the change in the number of people experiencing homelessness in a year following termination of federal support for Housing First programs.
jamanetwork.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
What would be the real world impacts of the loss of federal funding for Housing First programs? We modeled it: an additional 44,590 ppl beyond anticipated growth due to economic factors. @jabarocas.bsky.social @kirkfetters.bsky.social @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
“There is no place for us” by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social IS one of the must reads of the year.
@nytimes.com & President Obama and many others agree too!
If you haven’t read it yet, please do!
@nytimes.com & President Obama and many others agree too!
If you haven’t read it yet, please do!
December 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
“There is no place for us” by @brian-goldstone.bsky.social IS one of the must reads of the year.
@nytimes.com & President Obama and many others agree too!
If you haven’t read it yet, please do!
@nytimes.com & President Obama and many others agree too!
If you haven’t read it yet, please do!
Reposted by Margot Kushel MD
Interested in the overlap between poor health & homelessness-- and how to improve health among people experiencing homelessness> Interested in how health &housing systems should collaborate to end homelessness?
Join us today! Noon PT!
@ucsfbhhi.bsky.social
homelessness.ucsf.edu/calendar/web...
Join us today! Noon PT!
@ucsfbhhi.bsky.social
homelessness.ucsf.edu/calendar/web...
Webinar: Understanding Health & Homelessness | Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative
People experiencing homelessness in California face high rates of chronic illness and disability, and numerous barriers to care. These health challenges make it harder for people to obtain and retain ...
homelessness.ucsf.edu
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Interested in the overlap between poor health & homelessness-- and how to improve health among people experiencing homelessness> Interested in how health &housing systems should collaborate to end homelessness?
Join us today! Noon PT!
@ucsfbhhi.bsky.social
homelessness.ucsf.edu/calendar/web...
Join us today! Noon PT!
@ucsfbhhi.bsky.social
homelessness.ucsf.edu/calendar/web...
Interested in the overlap between poor health & homelessness-- and how to improve health among people experiencing homelessness> Interested in how health &housing systems should collaborate to end homelessness?
Join us today! Noon PT!
@ucsfbhhi.bsky.social
homelessness.ucsf.edu/calendar/web...
Join us today! Noon PT!
@ucsfbhhi.bsky.social
homelessness.ucsf.edu/calendar/web...
Webinar: Understanding Health & Homelessness | Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative
People experiencing homelessness in California face high rates of chronic illness and disability, and numerous barriers to care. These health challenges make it harder for people to obtain and retain ...
homelessness.ucsf.edu
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Interested in the overlap between poor health & homelessness-- and how to improve health among people experiencing homelessness> Interested in how health &housing systems should collaborate to end homelessness?
Join us today! Noon PT!
@ucsfbhhi.bsky.social
homelessness.ucsf.edu/calendar/web...
Join us today! Noon PT!
@ucsfbhhi.bsky.social
homelessness.ucsf.edu/calendar/web...
📢 New paper alert:
We examined long-term housing results among a cohort of older homeless adults.
Full article: Factors Associated With Exits From and Returns to Homelessness Among Older Homeless Adults: Results From the HOPE HOME Study www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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We examined long-term housing results among a cohort of older homeless adults.
Full article: Factors Associated With Exits From and Returns to Homelessness Among Older Homeless Adults: Results From the HOPE HOME Study www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Factors Associated With Exits From and Returns to Homelessness Among Older Homeless Adults: Results From the HOPE HOME Study
Homelessness is dynamic; some individuals cycle between homelessness and housing. In a longitudinal study of 411 adults aged 50 and older who were homeless at study enrollment, we examined the prev...
www.tandfonline.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
📢 New paper alert:
We examined long-term housing results among a cohort of older homeless adults.
Full article: Factors Associated With Exits From and Returns to Homelessness Among Older Homeless Adults: Results From the HOPE HOME Study www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
1/5
We examined long-term housing results among a cohort of older homeless adults.
Full article: Factors Associated With Exits From and Returns to Homelessness Among Older Homeless Adults: Results From the HOPE HOME Study www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Reposted by Margot Kushel MD
I’m heartsick to hear that the incomparable Alice Wong has passed. Her loss will be felt keenly, by many, and for a long time. She is a force, a generous leader and storyteller, and an oracle for disabled futures. Much love to Alice and to all our crip kin and comrades. ❤️🩹
November 15, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I’m heartsick to hear that the incomparable Alice Wong has passed. Her loss will be felt keenly, by many, and for a long time. She is a force, a generous leader and storyteller, and an oracle for disabled futures. Much love to Alice and to all our crip kin and comrades. ❤️🩹
Reposted by Margot Kushel MD
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Alice Wong on Instagram: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the time of her passing. Hi everyone, it ...
423 likes, 73 comments - alicatsamurai on November 14, 2025: "ID: Yellow background with black text "This is Alice's friend Sandy Ho, posting. Per Alice's wishes, this message is being shared at the t...
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November 15, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed.
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
Here are the words she left behind:
www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...
This @nytimes.com piece on the "Vision for Homelessness" in Utah should horrify all people.
This NYTimes piece on the "Vision for Homelessness" in Utah should horrify all people.
1/x 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
This NYTimes piece on the "Vision for Homelessness" in Utah should horrify all people.
1/x 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This @nytimes.com piece on the "Vision for Homelessness" in Utah should horrify all people.
This NYTimes piece on the "Vision for Homelessness" in Utah should horrify all people.
1/x 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
This NYTimes piece on the "Vision for Homelessness" in Utah should horrify all people.
1/x 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Community safety comes from ensuring that everyone has a safe and secure place to live. Community safety comes from ensuring that we have well-funded, high functioning schools. Community safety comes from ensuring everyone has access to the healthcare that they need.
October 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Community safety comes from ensuring that everyone has a safe and secure place to live. Community safety comes from ensuring that we have well-funded, high functioning schools. Community safety comes from ensuring everyone has access to the healthcare that they need.
Always good to spend time with @lisahalverstadt.bsky.social — one of the best journalists working on homelessness. #Politifest2025
October 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Always good to spend time with @lisahalverstadt.bsky.social — one of the best journalists working on homelessness. #Politifest2025
Thrilled to spend a few days in Ireland with @simoncommunity.bsky.social bringing the American perspective—homelessness is solvable. (Don’t fall into the mistakes of the US)!
Today's first speaker @mkushel.bsky.social, University of California, discussed Ageing, Health, and Homelessness.
Margot's message was clear, homelessness is solvable!
Thank you to Margot for contributing your vast knowledge to our dicussion.
#SimonWeek2025 #SimonCares
Margot's message was clear, homelessness is solvable!
Thank you to Margot for contributing your vast knowledge to our dicussion.
#SimonWeek2025 #SimonCares
September 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Thrilled to spend a few days in Ireland with @simoncommunity.bsky.social bringing the American perspective—homelessness is solvable. (Don’t fall into the mistakes of the US)!
Reposted by Margot Kushel MD
In the last day, a Fox news reporter responded to his on air colleague advocating for mass internment of people experiencing homelessness by suggesting instead that someone (the government? Bystanders?) pursue lethal injection of them. (He is, as far as I can tell, still employed).
September 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
In the last day, a Fox news reporter responded to his on air colleague advocating for mass internment of people experiencing homelessness by suggesting instead that someone (the government? Bystanders?) pursue lethal injection of them. (He is, as far as I can tell, still employed).
In the last day, a Fox news reporter responded to his on air colleague advocating for mass internment of people experiencing homelessness by suggesting instead that someone (the government? Bystanders?) pursue lethal injection of them. (He is, as far as I can tell, still employed).
September 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
In the last day, a Fox news reporter responded to his on air colleague advocating for mass internment of people experiencing homelessness by suggesting instead that someone (the government? Bystanders?) pursue lethal injection of them. (He is, as far as I can tell, still employed).
📣Homelessness is caused by the disconnect btw housing costs & incomes. In addition to the ⬆️cost of housing-- the lack of labor protections in the US contribute to homelessness. Our new paper using #CAHomelessnessStudy examines this
@ucsfbhhi.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@ucsfbhhi.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Everybody out there in the real world is one paycheck away from being homeless”: job loss and housing precarity among people experiencing homelessness
The United States has fewer labor protections and wage guarantees than most wealthy industrialized nations; thus, workers can fall into economic hardship by the loss of employment, reduction in wor...
www.tandfonline.com
August 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
📣Homelessness is caused by the disconnect btw housing costs & incomes. In addition to the ⬆️cost of housing-- the lack of labor protections in the US contribute to homelessness. Our new paper using #CAHomelessnessStudy examines this
@ucsfbhhi.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@ucsfbhhi.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Human beings are not “blight.” And cutting resources while throwing away people’s worldly possessions does not solve homelessness.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...
For D.C.’s Homeless, Strained Lives Become More Unstable
www.nytimes.com
August 18, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Human beings are not “blight.” And cutting resources while throwing away people’s worldly possessions does not solve homelessness.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...
Veteran homelessness has ⬇️by > 1/2, because of Housing First and FUNDING. In @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social @hannahdeckermd.bsky.social study, Vets who gained housing were >2 as likely to catch up on colon and breast ca screening. Housing = Health
www.annfammed.org/content/23/4...
@annfammed.bsky.social
www.annfammed.org/content/23/4...
@annfammed.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Veteran homelessness has ⬇️by > 1/2, because of Housing First and FUNDING. In @ucsfbhhi.bsky.social @hannahdeckermd.bsky.social study, Vets who gained housing were >2 as likely to catch up on colon and breast ca screening. Housing = Health
www.annfammed.org/content/23/4...
@annfammed.bsky.social
www.annfammed.org/content/23/4...
@annfammed.bsky.social
Reposted by Margot Kushel MD
URGENT: DC to clear many homeless encampments tonight (Thur, Aug 7th). Please spread widely and share with media.
My hunch is that this is @MayorBowser working with @realDonaldTrump , but I cannot confirm that yet.
My hunch is that this is @MayorBowser working with @realDonaldTrump , but I cannot confirm that yet.
August 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
URGENT: DC to clear many homeless encampments tonight (Thur, Aug 7th). Please spread widely and share with media.
My hunch is that this is @MayorBowser working with @realDonaldTrump , but I cannot confirm that yet.
My hunch is that this is @MayorBowser working with @realDonaldTrump , but I cannot confirm that yet.
Reposted by Margot Kushel MD
Today’s EO on homelessness is shocking in its cruelty (even for this administration). Cutting funding for housing and health while criminalizing homelessness & mental health and substance use problems will lead to endless suffering and worsen homelessness.
July 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Today’s EO on homelessness is shocking in its cruelty (even for this administration). Cutting funding for housing and health while criminalizing homelessness & mental health and substance use problems will lead to endless suffering and worsen homelessness.
Today’s EO on homelessness is shocking in its cruelty (even for this administration). Cutting funding for housing and health while criminalizing homelessness & mental health and substance use problems will lead to endless suffering and worsen homelessness.
July 25, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Today’s EO on homelessness is shocking in its cruelty (even for this administration). Cutting funding for housing and health while criminalizing homelessness & mental health and substance use problems will lead to endless suffering and worsen homelessness.
Join us at 9am PT today!
Bay Area friends: I’ll be joining KQED Forum live tomorrow (7/22) at 9am PST, along with @mkushel.bsky.social. The conversation will be hosted by @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social.
Working Yet Homeless in America | KQED
We talk to journalist Brian Goldstone and Dr. Margot Kushel, Director of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, about the experience of having a job but not housing.
www.kqed.org
July 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Join us at 9am PT today!
Reposted by Margot Kushel MD
Bay Area friends: I’ll be joining KQED Forum live tomorrow (7/22) at 9am PST, along with @mkushel.bsky.social. The conversation will be hosted by @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social.
Working Yet Homeless in America | KQED
We talk to journalist Brian Goldstone and Dr. Margot Kushel, Director of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, about the experience of having a job but not housing.
www.kqed.org
July 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Bay Area friends: I’ll be joining KQED Forum live tomorrow (7/22) at 9am PST, along with @mkushel.bsky.social. The conversation will be hosted by @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social.
⭐ Important report from @capolicylab.bsky.social on pilot data from homelessness prevention project
🔑 to homelessness prevention is ID ppr w highest risk, finding them, using evidence based interventions to as many as possible. They did that! RCT results to come.
⬇️ Read the report!
lnkd.in/gsYMDiEW
🔑 to homelessness prevention is ID ppr w highest risk, finding them, using evidence based interventions to as many as possible. They did that! RCT results to come.
⬇️ Read the report!
lnkd.in/gsYMDiEW
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July 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM
⭐ Important report from @capolicylab.bsky.social on pilot data from homelessness prevention project
🔑 to homelessness prevention is ID ppr w highest risk, finding them, using evidence based interventions to as many as possible. They did that! RCT results to come.
⬇️ Read the report!
lnkd.in/gsYMDiEW
🔑 to homelessness prevention is ID ppr w highest risk, finding them, using evidence based interventions to as many as possible. They did that! RCT results to come.
⬇️ Read the report!
lnkd.in/gsYMDiEW
Reposted by Margot Kushel MD
We're looking for a part-time Policy Analyst with lived experience living in CA to support the state's Prevention Services Continuous Quality Improvement Plan. Join us to make a difference for communities and work with great people! Apply using the Careers button here: tinyurl.com/bdfdpmee
July 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We're looking for a part-time Policy Analyst with lived experience living in CA to support the state's Prevention Services Continuous Quality Improvement Plan. Join us to make a difference for communities and work with great people! Apply using the Careers button here: tinyurl.com/bdfdpmee
Reposted by Margot Kushel MD
“Research shows that housing is not just a solution to homelessness—it's...a direct intervention against violence. People are significantly safer once housed,” says @mkushel.bsky.social.
“Investments in permanent housing, supportive services & prevention... are critical...”
“Investments in permanent housing, supportive services & prevention... are critical...”
Mass stabbing in Salem as 11 rushed to hospital: What to know
Eleven people were rushed to hospital after a mass stabbing occurred at a men's homeless shelter in Salem, Oregon, on Sunday.
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June 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“Research shows that housing is not just a solution to homelessness—it's...a direct intervention against violence. People are significantly safer once housed,” says @mkushel.bsky.social.
“Investments in permanent housing, supportive services & prevention... are critical...”
“Investments in permanent housing, supportive services & prevention... are critical...”