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The Costs of Caring: Navigating Material Challenges When Adults Informally Host Youth Facing Homelessness
Author(s): Mallory VanMeeter, Susanna R. Curry, Brenda A. Tully, Stacey Ault, Ande Nesmith, Jacqueline White
Publication Date: 2022
Emerging work suggests that in some intergenerational informal hosting arrangements, youth and their adult hosts can form meaningful and supportive relationships. However, hosts also navigate material challenges that could threaten the stability of these arrangements. This study describes how increased household costs and lease and benefits restrictions can impact stability, and the strategies hosts and youth mobilized to address them. 
Youth Homelessness and Vulnerability: How Does Couch Surfing Fit?
Author(s): Susanna R. Curry, Matthew Morton, Jennifer L. Matjasko, Amy Dworsky, Gina M. Samuels, David Schlueter
Publication Date: 2017
Youth homelessness is a problem characterized by high levels of vulnerability. The extent to which couch surfing — moving from one temporary housing arrangement to another — is part of youth homelessness is not well understood. Chapin Hall's Voices of Youth Count, a national research initiative, involves a multicomponent approach to studying youth homelessness. This study reports emerging findings regarding couch surfing and homelessness primaril...
Resident Perspectives on Life in a Transitional Living Program for Homeless Young Adults
Author(s): Susanna R. Curry, Robin Petering
Publication Date: 2017
Safe and affordable housing is critical for any young person’s well-being, and yet many youth are without a reliable place to live. Knowledge of the perceptions of housing programs and shelter among homeless young adults ages 18–24 is very limited. Using qualitative methodology, the present study explores the perceptions of homeless young adults on their experiences as residents of a transitional living program (TLP) by asking the following resea...