Policies to Reduce and Prevent Homelessness
What We Know and Gaps in the Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11680291 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William N Evans (0000-0001-5446-268X), David C Phillips (Phillips University, corresponding author), Krista Ruffini (0000-0003-3865-2859, corresponding author) |
| Editors | Ingrid Gould Ellen (0000-0002-6127-633X) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 914-963 |
| Publication date | 2021-02-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0276-8739 • E-ISSN: 1520-6688 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/pam.22283 |
| OpenAlex | W3128912807 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 29 |
| References cited | 95 |
Homelessness may be both a cause of and one of the more extreme outcomes of poverty. Governments at all levels and private organizations have a variety of tools to combat homelessness, and these strategies have changed dramatically over the past quarter century. In this paper, we catalog the policy responses and the existing literature on the effectiveness of these strategies, focusing on studies of individual‐level effects from randomized controlled trial evaluations and the best quasi‐experimental designs. We conclude by discussing outstanding questions that can be addressed with these same methods
Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Political science · Poverty · Public economics · Public relations · Quarter (Canadian coin · Randomized experiment · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Can Emergency Rental Assistance Be Designed to Prevent Homelessness? Learning from Emergency Rental Assistance Programs
Periodic Evaluations of Risk Assessments
Understanding Patterns of Response to Rising Homelessness
Predictors of homeless service utilization and stable housing status among Veterans receiving services from a nationwide homelessness prevention and rapid rehousing program
Can rapid rental assistance avert evictions? Evidence from administrative delays
Does Rapid Re-Housing reduce homelessness
Do Homelessness Prevention Programs Prevent Homelessness? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
You Can Solve a Lot of Problems With a Good Night’s Sleep
Framing homelessness
Cultural Competence in Community‐Level Initiatives to Advance Racial Equity in Homeless Services
Community-level predictors of doubled-up homelessness
Homelessness and housing supply
Who Counts? Educational Disadvantage among Children Identified as Homeless and Implications for the Systems That Serve Them
Promoting performance in multilevel governance and delivery of homelessness services
Characterizing an intersection between heat-related illness and overdose deaths in Arizona
Service Use Differences Among Those Experiencing Homelessness
Impact of Trauma-Informed Design on Health and Well-Being of People Formerly Experiencing Homelessness in Permanent Supportive Housing
Public mental health facility closures and criminal justice contact in Chicago
Personalizing homelessness prevention
Does local community effort relate to neighbors' homelessness
Needs, diversity, and urbanicity
JUE Insight
Local access to mental healthcare and crime
Allocating Homeless Services After the Withdrawal of the Vulnerability Index–Service Prioritization Decision Assistance Tool
Do Federal Grants for Medication-Assisted Opioid Treatment Reduce Homelessness
What Does it Mean to be Homeless? How Definitions Affect Homelessness Policy
Do Criminalization Policies Impact Local Homelessness
Understanding Public Preferences for Policing Homeless Individuals in the United States
Homelessness and race
The Effects of Housing Assistance on Labor Supply
The At Home/Chez Soi trial protocol
Mortality Among Unsheltered Homeless Adults in Boston, Massachusetts, 2000-2009
Pathways to Housing
Recursive partitioning for heterogeneous causal effects
The Effects of Rent Control Expansion on Tenants, Landlords, and Inequality
Why Have Housing Prices Gone Up?
The Geographic Determinants of Housing Supply
Moved to Opportunity
Mortality among residents of shelters, rooming houses, and hotels in Canada
Housing First for People with Severe Mental Illness Who are Homeless
Cost-effectiveness of Supported Housing for Homeless Persons With Mental Illness
Superstar Cities
Why Is Manhattan So Expensive? Regulation and the Rise in Housing Prices
Public service reductions associated with placement of homeless persons with severe mental illness in supportive housing
Housing affordability and family well‐being
Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies
Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects
The Effects of Exposure to Better Neighborhoods on Children
The old homeless and the new homelessness in historical perspective
Randomized Trial of the Effects of Housing Assistance on the Health and Risk Behaviors of Homeless and Unstably Housed People Living with HIV
Time-Limited Case Management for Homeless Mothers With Mental Health Problems
Homeless Shelter Use and Reincarceration Following Prison Release
Rigging the Rules of the Game
Housing, hospitalization, and cost outcomes for homeless individuals with psychiatric disabilities participating in continuum of care and housing first programmes
Housing First Services for People Who Are Homeless With Co-Occurring Serious Mental Illness and Substance Abuse
What Interventions Work Best for Families Who Experience Homelessness? Impact Estimates from the Family Options Study
Evicted. Poverty and profit in the American city
Do Source of Income Anti-discrimination Laws Facilitate Access to Less Disadvantaged Neighborhoods
Estimating the Prevalence of Hard‐to‐Reach Populations
Do Homeless Shelter Conditions Determine Shelter Population? The Case of the Dinkins Deluge
Decreasing Psychiatric Symptoms by Increasing Choice in Services for Adults with Histories of Homelessness
Longitudinal Impact of a Family Critical Time Intervention on Children in High‐Risk Families Experiencing Homelessness
Housing Chronically Homeless Veterans
Institutional discharges and subsequent shelter use among unaccompanied adults in New York City
From streets to homes
Housing First, Consumer Choice, and Harm Reduction for Homeless Individuals With a Dual Diagnosis
To House or Not to House
Estimating Numbers of Unsheltered Homeless People Through Plant-Capture and Postcount Survey Methods
Housing and Urban Development–Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Vouchers and Veterans’ Homelessness, 2007–2017
Mortality among homeless shelter residents in New York City
Efficient Targeting of Homelessness Prevention Services for Families
The Prevalence and Economic Value of Doubling Up
Measuring Housing Stability With Consumer Reference Data
The Relationship between Community Investment in Permanent Supportive Housing and Chronic Homelessness
An Econometric Analysis of Rent Control
The Impact of Legal Counsel on Outcomes for Poor Tenants in New York City's Housing Court
The Economic Implications of Housing Supply
Criminality and Homeless Men
Housing and Employment Insecurity among the Working Poor
Effects of Homelessness and Child Maltreatment on the Likelihood of Engaging in Property and Violent Crime During Adulthood
| Unique citing works | 29 |
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| Citations per year | 7,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 29 |