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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...