Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Ad Hoc Task Force on the Homeless and HousingPublisher:
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Category : Homelessness
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Effect of Our Nation's Housing Policy on Homelessness
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget. Ad Hoc Task Force on the Homeless and HousingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Homelessness
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Permanent Supportive Housing
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309477042
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over the years, concomitant with fluctuations in the economy and changes in the demographics of and attitudes toward poor and disenfranchised citizens. In recent decades, federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the philanthropic community have worked hard to develop and implement programs to solve the challenges of homelessness, and progress has been made. However, much more remains to be done. Importantly, the results of various efforts, and especially the efforts to reduce homelessness among veterans in recent years, have shown that the problem of homelessness can be successfully addressed. Although a number of programs have been developed to meet the needs of persons experiencing homelessness, this report focuses on one particular type of intervention: permanent supportive housing (PSH). Permanent Supportive Housing focuses on the impact of PSH on health care outcomes and its cost-effectiveness. The report also addresses policy and program barriers that affect the ability to bring the PSH and other housing models to scale to address housing and health care needs.
Resources in Education
Author: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1110
Book Description
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
Author: Gregg ColburnPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520383796
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisis in America and reveals the structural conditions that underlie it. In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area. Using accessible statistical analysis, they test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city—including mental illness, drug use, poverty, weather, generosity of public assistance, and low-income mobility—and find that none explain the regional variation observed across the country. Instead, housing market conditions, such as the cost and availability of rental housing, offer a far more convincing account. With rigor and clarity, Homelessness Is a Housing Problem explores U.S. cities' diverse experiences with housing precarity and offers policy solutions for unique regional contexts.
Homelessness, Health, and Human Needs
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309038324
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
There have always been homeless people in the United States, but their plight has only recently stirred widespread public reaction and concern. Part of this new recognition stems from the problem's prevalence: the number of homeless individuals, while hard to pin down exactly, is rising. In light of this, Congress asked the Institute of Medicine to find out whether existing health care programs were ignoring the homeless or delivering care to them inefficiently. This book is the report prepared by a committee of experts who examined these problems through visits to city slums and impoverished rural areas, and through an analysis of papers written by leading scholars in the field.
Homelessness in America--the Need for Permanent Housing
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Homeless persons
Languages : en
Pages : 906
Book Description
A Right to Housing
Author: Rachel BrattPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1592134327
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
How can we explain the persistent inability of the United States to meet the housing needs of a large portion of its people? What can we do about the problem? In this important new work leading progressive housing activists and thinkers examine the state of housing, the housed, and housing policy in the United States and then provide a comprehensive and detailed program for solving the problem, under the goal of a Right to Housing.
Meeting Our Nation's Housing Challenges
Author: United States. Millennial Housing CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
CD-ROM includes "description of methods by which the Commission sought public input, list of Commission sponsored meetings and hearings, including names of participants, text of letter the Commission distributed seeking input on key issues, as well as a list of the people and organizations to which it was sent, hearing testimony and statements submitted during other Commission-sponsored meetings."
Homelessness in America
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Homeless persons
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description