Advocacy and Enumeration

Enumerating or estimating the numbers of homeless people has become an important research activity in the past few decades. The methodologies of almost all efforts to count homeless people have been closely linked to advocacy activities such as providing shelter and food to those in need. Yet the effect of advocacy work on estimating or enumerating homeless populations has not been much examined in the enumeration literature. This work reviews the methodology of enumeration as it has been influenced by the work of advocates both in general terms and through examining the methods used to conduct a study of a suburban homeless population in New York in 1994. Enumeration methods that overtly take local advocacy activities into account can provide an enriched assessment of homelessness as it exists in relation to surrounding structural conditions. In this case, advocacy work actively prevented literal homelessness for most families in the local community

Enumeration · Literal (mathematical logic) · Political science · Population · Public relations · Relation (database) · Sociology · Work (physics) · Computer Science · Demography · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Homelessness and Social Issues · Mathematics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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• Emplaced Partnerships and the Ethics of Care, Recognition and Resilience

  Open Access•Annmarie Ryan, Geiger et al.•Journal of Business Ethics•2023

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• Stand Up and Be Counted”

  Open Access•Jean Calterone Williams•Poverty & Public Policy•2011

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• Community-driven approaches to homelessness enumeration

  Pengfei Fu, Ashley Wilkinson et al.•Journal of Social Distress and…•2025

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• Methodological Issues in Enumerating Homeless Individuals

  W Jay Gabbard, Cindy Snyder et al.•Journal of Social Distress and…•2007

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• Homeless Men Living in Transitional Housing

  Open Access•Marilyn C Welsh, Marilyn Welsh et al.•SAGE Open•2018

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• Public shelter admission rates in Philadelphia and New York City

  Dennis P Culhane, Edmund F Dejowski et al.•Housing Policy Debate•1994

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• The Urban Homeless

  Open Access•Peter H Rossi, James D Wright et al.•Science•1987

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• Methodology for Obtaining a Representative Sample of Homeless Persons

  Open Access•M Audrey Burnam, Paul Koegel•Evaluation Review•1988

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• Lifetime and five-year prevalence of homelessness in the United States

  Bruce G Link, Ezra Susser et al.•American Journal of Public Health•1994

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• Critical factors in counting the homeless

  Martha R Burt•American Journal of Orthopsychiatry•1995

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• Lifetime and five-year prevalence of homelessness in the United States

  Bruce G Link, Jo C Phelan et al.•American Journal of Orthopsychiatry•1995

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• Definitional quandaries and other hazards in counting the homeless

  K Hopper•American Journal of Orthopsychiatry•1995

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• The Roles of Housing and Poverty in the Origins of Homelessness

  Open Access•Marybeth Shinn, Colleen Gillespie•American Behavioral Scientist•1994

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• And We Are Not Seen

  Open Access•Gary Blasi•American Behavioral Scientist•1994

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• Distorting Tendencies in Research on the Homeless

  Open Access•David A Snow, Léon Anderson et al.•American Behavioral Scientist•1994

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• Held in Abeyance

  Open Access•K Hopper, Jim Baumohl•American Behavioral Scientist•1994

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• America's Homeless

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