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Homeless Families Research Brief: Child Separation Among Families Experiencing Homelessness
Author(s): Douglas Walton, Michelle Wood, Lauren Dunton
Publication Date: 2018
Families who use emergency shelters are more likely than poor, housed families to experience separations between children and their custodial parents (Cowal et al., 2002). Family composition may change over time. For example, a parent may send his or her children to live in what he or she perceives to be a safer environment with relatives or family friends rather than subjecting children to the experience of a shelter. In other cases, child welfa...
Homeless Families Research Brief: Child Separation Among Families Experiencing Homelessness
Author(s): Douglas Walton, Michelle Wood, Lauren Dunton
Publication Date: 2018
Families who use emergency shelters are more likely than poor, housed families to experience separations between children and their custodial parents (Cowal et al., 2002). Family composition may change over time. For example, a parent may send his or her children to live in what he or she perceives to be a safer environment with relatives or family friends rather than subjecting children to the experience of a shelter. In other cases, child welfa...
Family Options Study: Short-Term Impacts of Housing and Services Interventions for Homeless Families
Author(s): Daniel Gubits, Marybeth Shinn, Stephen Bell, Michelle Wood, Samuel Dastrup, Claudia D. Solari, Scott R. Brown, Steven Brown, Lauren Dunton, Winston Lin, Debi McInnis, Jason Rodriguez, Galen Savidge, Brooke E. Spellman
Organization: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research
Publication Date: 2015
The Family Options Study, launched by HUD in 2008 (and still under way), is a rigorously designed experimental study intended to provide the strongest evidence possible about the effectiveness and relative costs of four main interventions available to homeless families—permanent housing subsidy, project-based transitional housing, community-based rapid re-housing, or usual care. More than 2,200 homeless families, including more than 5,000 childre...
Study of PHAs’ Efforts to Serve People Experiencing Homelessness
Author(s): Lauren Dunton, Meghan Henry, Eliza Kean, Jill Khadduri
Organization: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Publication Date: 2014
This report examines data collected from about 4,000 Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) through an online survey and follow-up telephone interviews with 120 PHAs. Overall, 24 percent of PHAs have a prioritization that enables them to serve people experiencing homelessness and remove barriers that make it hard for them to access housing assistance programs. Among the other findings in the report: Larger PHAs and those in metropolitan areas are more l...