A study by the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles finds that the 2028 Olympic Games could lead to the displacement of thousands of unhoused individuals. The research, produced jointly by USC and UCLA, puts displacement at scale on record as a risk attached to Olympic planning.
The conditional framing, "could lead to," reflects the study's probabilistic stance. Thousands is not a rounding error. The two universities are pointing to a population-level consequence the 2028 Games carry as a latent cost, and the research makes that cost explicit before the event.