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A Primer for Beginning Rural Housing Developers
Jennifer Garner
Rural organizations play an important role in combating the effects of the recession by working to provide affordable housing for an increased number of people. Due to high need, many rural organizations without prior housing development experience...
Applying Cluster Analysis to Test a Typology of Homelessness by Pattern of Shelter Utilization: Results from the Analysis of Administrative Data
Randall Kuhn, Dennis Culhane
This study tests a typology of homelessness using administrative data on public shelter use in New York City (1988–1995) and Philadelphia (1991–1995). Cluster analysis is used to produce three groups (transitionally, episodically, and chronically...
Making Room: The Economics of Homelessness
Brendan O'Flaherty
Mentally ill people turned out of institutions, crack-cocaine use on the rise, more poverty, public housing a shambles: as attempts to explain homelessness multiply so do the homeless--and we still don't know why. The first full-scale economic...
The Status of Older Adolescents at Exit From Out-of-Home Care
J. Curtis McMillen, Jayne Tucker
Assessed exit status of older Missouri youths leaving out-of-home care. Found that most exited in unplanned ways, without employment or high school diploma. The most common living arrangement was with relatives. The number of placements and high...
Making Homelessness Programs Accountable to Consumers, Funders and the Public
Dennis Culhane, David Eldridge, Robert Rosenheck, Carol Wilkins
This paper addresses the issue of accountability of programs involved in the treatment of homeless individuals. This paper discusses how different types of performance measurement can be used to improve the accountability of homeless programs to...
Social Support of Homeless and Housed Mothers: A Comparison of Temporary and Permanent Housing Arrangements
Bethany Letiecq, Elaine Anderson, Sally Koblinsky
This study compared the social support of 115 low-income housed mothers and 92 homeless mothers residing in emergency shelters (n = 31), transitional housing units (n = 44), and doubled-up arrangements (n = 17). All mothers had a preschool child in...
Effects of Poverty, Hunger and Homelessness on Children and Youth
The nation’s economic crisis has deeply affected the lives of millions of Americans. Skyrocketing foreclosures and job layoffs have pulled the rug out from under many families, particularly those living in low-income communities. Deepening poverty...
Respondent-Driven Sampling: A New Approach to the Study of Hidden Populations
Douglas Heckathorn
A population is hidden when no sampling frame exists and public acknowledgment of membership in the population is potentially threatening. Accessing such populations is difficult because standard probability sampling methods produce low response...
Preventing Recurrent Homelessness Among Mentally Ill Men: A Critical Time Intervention After Discharge from a Shelter
Ezra Susser, Elie Valencia, Sarah Conover, Alan Felix, Wei-Yann Tsai, Richard J. Wyatt
This study examined a strategy to prevent homelessness among individuals with severe mental illness by providing a bridge between institutional and community care. Ninety-six men with severe mental illness who were entering community housing from a...
Evaluation of a Homeless Mentally Ill Outreach Program: Differential Short-Term Effects
Deborah Bybee, Carol Mowbray, Evan Cohen
Previously published research on interventions for persons who are homeless and mentally ill has exhibited marked limitations in attrition, sample sizes, generalizability and outcome measures. This report presents results from an outreach and...
Not a Solo Act: Creating Successful Partnerships to Develop and Operate Supportive Housing
Supportive housing is not a solo act. It brings together three very different disciplines – housing development, supportive services, and property management – and therefore often requires a collaboration between two or more lead organizations, as...
The Long Term Effects of Housing Assistance on Self-Sufficiency
Sandra Newman, Joseph Harkness
This study investigated the effects of housing assistance received by children between the ages of 10 and 16 at some point during the period 1968-1982 on four outcomes experienced in adulthood: (1) welfare receipt between ages 20-27; (2) earnings...
Street Outreach for Homeless Persons with Serious Mental Illness: Is It Effective?
Julie Lam, Robert Rosenheck
Objectives. This study examined data on case management clients who are homeless and have a severe mental illness to determine how those contacted through street outreach differ in their socio-demographic characteristics, service needs, and outcomes...
Toronto Street Youth and HIV/AIDS: Prevalence, Demographics, and Risks
Dale DeMatteo, Carol Major, Barbara Block, Randall Coates, Margaret Fearon, Eudice Goldberg, Susan King, Margaret Millson, Michael O'Shaughnessy, Stanley Read
Purpose: The purposes of this study were: (a) to identify human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence in Toronto street youth through paired blood and saliva specimens; (b) to identify the HIV risk and prevention behaviors of...
Getting Down to Business and Off Welfare: Rural Women Entrepreneurs
This article reports on a grounded theory study that explored the experiences that influenced 17 rural, low-income women to choose sole business ownership as a strategy for becoming economically self-sufficient. Constant comparative analysis...