Toward Understanding Homelessness
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Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Homeless persons |
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Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Homeless persons |
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Author | : Deborah Dennis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2015-01-15 |
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ISBN | : 9781457865374 |
On March 1-2, 2007, the Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Housing and Urban Development (HUD) sponsored the second National Symposium on Homelessness Research. Papers include: Historical and Contextual Influences on the U.S. Response to Contemporary Homelessness: Changing Homeless and Mainstream Service Systems; Consumer Integration and Self-Determination in Homelessness Research, Policy, Planning, and Services; People Who Experience Long-Term Homelessness: Characteristics and Interventions; Homeless Families and Children; Homeless Youth in the U.S.: Research Findings and Intervention Approaches; Characteristics of Help-Seeking Youth; Rural Homelessness; Incarceration and Homelessness; Housing Models; Employment and Income Supports for Homeless People; Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performances. Figures. This is a print on demand report.
Author | : Adrienne Ione |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Homelessness |
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Author | : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2018-07-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0309477077 |
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.
Author | : Gregg Colburn |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2022-03-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0520383761 |
Baseline -- Evidence -- Individual -- Landscape -- Market -- Typology -- Response.
Author | : Valerie Polakow |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2001-08-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0313003971 |
Homelessness strikes in all types of nations, from wealthy western nations to poor undeveloped countries. Each government and culture attends to this worldwide problem differently. This work collects eleven case studies of selected countries from around the world in order to offer a wide perspective on the dilemma of homelessness. Students can use this ready reference to compare and contrast homelessness populations, analyze the ways in which various countries approach this issue, and to evaluate what is precluding and encouraging this reaching issue. The problem of homelessness is clearly defined here from a global perspective. In addition, the history and resulting conflicts that have risen from homelessness are outlined. This ready reference analyzes the metamorphosis of the homelessness, what solutions have been suggested, and how effective these solutions have been. Students will learn to think critically about homelessness and what the future holds for each country as it battles with this seemingly unavoidable occurence.
Author | : Martha R. Burt |
Publisher | : Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781600212086 |
Homelessness prevention is an essential element of any effort to end homelessness either locally or nation-wide. To close the front door of entry into homelessness, the central challenge of prevention is targeting our efforts toward those people that will become homeless without the intervention. This book identifies elements of community homelessness prevention strategies that seem to lead to reductions in the number of people who otherwise would become homeless. The contributing elements include targeting through control of the eligibility screening process; developing community motivation; maximising mainstream and private resources; fostering leadership; and ensuring the availability and structure of data and information used to track progress, improve on prevention efforts, and facilitate outcome-based contracting. Evidence from the six communities studied indicates that those employing the most elements seem to be more successful at prevention and better able to document their achievements. This book also identifies four promising homelessness prevention activities that may be used alone or in combination as part of a coherent community-wide strategy: (1) supportive services coupled with permanent housing, particularly when combined with effective discharge from institutions, especially mental hospitals; (2) mediation in Housing Courts; (3) cash assistance for rent or mortgage arrears; and (4) rapid exit from shelter. This study provides insight into approaches that will help prevent homelessness. It is an important contribution to our understanding of how to help homeless Americans.
Author | : Mary Ellen Hombs |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2011-04-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1598845373 |
This in-depth examination reviews fundamental changes of the past decade that have reduced homelessness in the United States and other Western democracies. Focusing on the last decade, Modern Homelessness: A Reference Handbook examines the issue in the United States and in other nations that have adopted new strategies to address homelessness—and achieved notable results in preventing and ending it. The handbook covers the unprecedented reductions first announced in 2007 and the crucial shifts in strategy and investment, and the results that brought them about. These fundamental changes are analyzed to identify the factors that proved most effective in altering the national and local dialogue and response relative to this daunting issue. In addition to a brief history of homelessness in contemporary times, the handbook examines key developments of the past decade in research, policy, housing models, and service delivery that have been shown to decrease homelessness. These include active partnership among the governments of the United States, Canada, England, Australia, New Zealand, and others that moved the discussion in a new direction. The story is brought up to date with a consideration of the effects of the 2008 economic crisis.
Author | : Brooke Spellman |
Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2010-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1437933890 |
Examines costs associated with the use of homeless and mainstream service delivery systems by families and individuals experiencing homelessness for the first time in six study communities. Assigning costs to public programs is a first step toward developing measures of the value of public interventions compared to the public costs incurred by ignoring or avoiding the problems those interventions are intended to address. The study finds that the experience of homelessness is diverse and the associated costs vary tremendously depending on the pattern of homelessness and family or individual status. It is not, however, a study of either cost-effectiveness or quality of care, but rather a calculation of costs associated with homelessness. Illustrations.
Author | : Jill Pable |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2021-07-08 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1000383407 |
Winner of the 2020 IDEC award Homelessness and the Built Environment provides a practical introduction to the effective physical design of homes and other facilities that assist unhoused persons in countries identified as middle- to high-income. It considers the supportive role that design can play for unhoused persons and other users and argues that the built environment is an equal partner alongside other therapies and programs for ending a person’s state of homelessness. By exploring issues, trends, and the unique potential of built environments, this book moves the needle of what is possible to assist people experiencing trauma. Examining important architectural and interior architectural design considerations in detail within emergency shelters, transitional shelters, permanent supportive housing, day centers, and multi-service complexes such as space planning choices, circulation and wayfinding, visibility, lighting, and materials and finishes, it provides readers with both curated conclusions from empirical knowledge and experienced designers’ perspectives. Homelessness and the Built Environment is an imperative and singular reference for interior designers, architects and building renovation sponsors, design researchers and students forging new discoveries, and policy makers who seek to assist communities affected by homelessness.