Jonathan D Yu
/by amelia boehJonathan Yu is a rising junior at UCLA majoring in sociology. He was born in Southern California, and, along with his parents, he is a longtime member of a local church. Through the church community, he learned the importance of community reliance. He saw how the members depended on each other for challenges large and small, from a simple move to a deep family loss. He has also seen a dramatic increase in homelessness in his community, and he is troubled that so many people have lost the support of their social networks. Now, he wants to do research on both the broad structural and more specific individual causes of homelessness and the factors that lead to escape from homelessness. In particular, he wants to examine how business and policy choices in the last couple of years have affected rates and proliferation of homelessness among different racial and ethnic groups. The research project he is planning to undertake will answer the following question: why is the racial makeup of the homeless population in Los Angeles different from the racial makeup of the population in Los Angeles overall? In particular, what are the protective forces that cause Asian people to make up only 1.2% of the homeless population when they make up 15% of the total population in the city?
He is deeply interested in research and exploring the deepest challenges in his community. Making change can only begin with knowledge, and this fellowship will give him an opportunity to explore an important and powerful social injustice.
Jonathan Yu is a rising junior at UCLA majoring in sociology. He was born in Southern California, and, along with his parents, he is a longtime member of a local church. Through the church community, he learned the importance of community reliance. He saw how the members depended on each other for challenges large and small, from a simple move to a deep family loss. He has also seen a dramatic increase in homelessness in his community, and he is troubled that so many people have lost the support of their social networks. Now, he wants to do research on both the broad structural and more specific individual causes of homelessness and the factors that lead to escape from homelessness. In particular, he wants to examine how business and policy choices in the last couple of years have affected rates and proliferation of homelessness among different racial and ethnic groups. The research project he is planning to undertake will answer the following question: why is the racial makeup of the homeless population in Los Angeles different from the racial makeup of the population in Los Angeles overall? In particular, what are the protective forces that cause Asian people to make up only 1.2% of the homeless population when they make up 15% of the total population in the city?
He is deeply interested in research and exploring the deepest challenges in his community. Making change can only begin with knowledge, and this fellowship will give him an opportunity to explore an important and powerful social injustice.