LA CAN’s participatory-action research supports our organizing campaigns through rigorous investigation and data analysis – with projects ranging from community surveys to needs assessments. These reports also focus on aspects and areas of poverty, housing, civil rights, and community health that have been under-researched in academia, which is one of the reasons that these reports regularly find their way into classrooms throughout the country. Below you will find a selection of our community research projects.
A downloadable PDF version of the report can be found HERE.
COMING SOON – An Interactive Map!
(July 2012)
2010 Downtown Women’s Need Assessment
A Report from the Downtown Women’s Action Coalition (March 2011)
Community-Based Human Rights Assessment: Skid Row’s Safer Cities Initiative
(December 2010)
Addressing the Impact of Public Health, Housing, and Law Enforcement Policies on Homelessness and Health in South Los Angeles – A Human Rights Approach to Health (July 2008)
Growing Need & Shrinking Opportunities
Findings and Recommendations from the 2007 Downtown Women’s Needs Assessment (2007)
Slum Housing and the Critical Threat to the Health of L.A.Children and Families (April 2007)
Many Struggles, Few OptionsFindings & Recommendations from the 2004 Downtown Women’s Needs Assessment (January 2005)
Taken for Granted: Ignoring Downtown Food-Insecurity
Assessing the impacts of limited choice, availability and quality of food. (October 2005)
A Profile of an Urban Encampment in Downtown Los Angeles with Ten Policy Recommendations (July 2001)
Downtown Women’s Needs Assessment
Findings and Recommendations, A Report of the Downtown Women’s Action Coaltion (October 2001)
Business Improvement Districts: Protecting or Provoking
(February 2000)