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Organization: University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Boston University
Publication Date: 2020
This study models potential scenarios of COVID-19 severity, hospitalization and fatality among homeless populations, and estimates additional homeless system capacity required to manage the acute impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the existing homeless population.
Organization: Center for Evidence-based Solutions to Homelessness
Publication Date: 2018
As our understanding of homelessness has evolved, we have come to recognize chronic homelessness as a relatively small and “solvable” problem that affects, on average, about 10 to 15 percent of people who experience homelessness. This vulnerable population of people with disabilities is composed primarily of adults living on their own, who either experience homelessness for prolonged periods of time or have repeat episodes of homelessness. Chroni...
Organization: Center for Evidence-based Solutions to Homelessness
Publication Date: 2018
As our understanding of homelessness has evolved, we have come to recognize chronic homelessness as a relatively small and “solvable” problem that affects, on average, about 10 to 15 percent of people who experience homelessness. This vulnerable population of people with disabilities is composed primarily of adults living on their own, who either experience homelessness for prolonged periods of time or have repeat episodes of homelessness. Chroni...
Organization: Ministry of the Environment, Department of the Built Environment
Publication Date: 2015
The review covered the whole of the programme to reduce long-term homelessness implemented during 2008–2011 and 2012–2015, Paavo I and Paavo II. The review focused on the programme as a whole as well as its different aspects from the point of view of implementing the Housing First model in Finnish society. The review report described work on homelessness done in the United Kingdom, Sweden and the USA, focusing particularly on operating practices...
Publication Date: 1999
This study looks at two sets of women who stayed in New York City homeless shelters in 1992—one set as part of a family and the other set as individuals—and at factors associated with an increased risk of their experiencing repeat shelter stays. Descriptive statistics and event history analysis indicate that regardless of whether the women stay in shelters with their families or by themselves, various family dynamics are associated with particula...
Publication Date: 1996
This study investigates hypotheses regarding the association of census tract variables with the risk for homelessness. We used prior address information reported by families entering emergency shelters in two large U.S. cities to characterize the nature of that distribution. Three dense clusters of homeless origins were found in Philadelphia and three in New York City, accounting for 67 percent and 61 percent of shelter admissions and revealin...
Publication Date: 2003
Pregnancy and the responsibilities of caring for children create additional barriers for low-income women and families seeking adequate and affordable housing, yet few studies have assessed the relative risk or prevalence of homelessness among pregnant or parenting women in the United States.1 The economic, social, and psychological dislocations associated with housing instability and homelessness may have particularly serious negative consequenc...
Publication Date: 2004
This paper discusses the background and policy issues related to family homelessness past and present, discusses research findings, and concludes with options for remedying family homelessness in the future. Homelessness affects many families; families now comprise a major segment of the homeless population. Convergent sources suggest that 420,000 families are homeless annually in the United States. This includes approximately 924,000 children....
Publication Date: 2003
The use of public shelters in Philadelphia was examined both before and after the implementation of Act 35, Pennsylvania’s response to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Univariate interrupted time-series analyses were conducted to determine if trends in shelter utilization (the number of families admitted, by family size, by race, by age of household head, by income, by disability indicator, and by avera...
Publication Date: 1996
This study explores the process of exit from and re-entry to public family shelters for homeless families in New York City. Based on eight years of administrative data on public shelter utilization among homeless families from New York City, the study identified the effects of demographic, family structure, reason for homelessness, and time-related variables for different types of shelter discharge and shelter re-entry. The study specifically ex...
Publication Date: 1997
This study examined the rate of admission to public shelters between 1990 and 1992 among persons who received Medicaid-reimbursed inpatient and outpatient psychiatric services and inpatient substance abuse services in Philadelphia between 1985 and 1993. Results show that 7.5 percent of such persons were admitted to public shelters during the three-year period, nearly 2.7 times the rate of shelter use by the general population (2.8 percent). Medic...
Publication Date: 2003
OBJECTIVE: The study examined changes in the use of shelters in New York City by mentally ill persons with a history of homelessness who received housing placements through the New York-New York (NY/NY) housing initiative between 1990 and 1999 and the impact of the initiative on the overall demand for shelter beds in the city. METHODS: Computerized service records on housing, shelter use, and health care services were linked to create an integr...
Publication Date: 1999
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 consumers, funders, and to the public. A distinction is made between the kinds of data used in formal research projects and data that can be practically obtained in a practice setting. Consumer outcomes a...
Publication Date: 2001
Objectives: This study reports findings from the first-ever systematic enumeration of homeless population size using data previously collected from administrative records of homeless services providers in nine US jurisdictions over a one year period. As such, it provides the basis for establishing an ongoing measure of the parameters of the homeless population and for tracking related trends on the use of homeless services over time.
Methods: Ea...
Publication Date: 1996
The Automated National Client-specific Homeless Services Recording (ANCHoR) System makes available to providers and local state governments a continuum of care information system for homeless recovery. This implementation and information resource guide describes the concept, development and testing of ANCHoR. Other information provided includes: an overview of design; security, confidentiality and data sharing; software support; and draft forms...
Publication Date: 1998
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 homeless) by number of shelter days and number of shelter episodes. Results show that the transitionally homeless, who constitute approximately 80% of shelter users in both cities, are younger, less like...
Publication Date: 2013
During recent years, the need to consider effective and innovative ways to prevent and end homelessness among individuals with serious mental illness has been abetted by an increased and more sophisticated understanding of the composition of the homeless population, the emergence of evidence-based practices to address homelessness, and the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This article summarizes the evolving understandin...
Publication Date: 2012
Understanding the prevalence of and risk for homelessness among veterans is prerequisite to preventing and ending homelessness among this population. Homeless veterans are at higher risk for chronic disease; understanding the dynamics of homelessness among veterans can contribute to our understanding of their health needs.
Methods We obtained data on demographic characteristics and veteran status for 130,554 homeless people from 7 jurisdictions t...
Organization: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs
Publication Date: 2011
The Veteran’s Supplemental Report provides one-day and one-year estimates of the number of homeless veterans nationally. This report also examines the demographic characteristics of homeless veterans and compares them to the characteristics of various other population groups, including all U.S. veterans, all veterans living in poverty, and non-veteran adults who are and are not homeless. (Authors)
Abstract
The Department of Housing and Urban Deve...
Publication Date: 1999
Information on stays and days spent in shelters is among the most basic of data collected through administrative records of homeless facilities. This paper goes over methods by which to analyze this data and which yield results that contribute to understanding the dynamics of how people use shelters. First, the paper shows ways to convert shelter stays, however they may be measured, into standardized units called episodes. The second section cove...