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Loading... Homelessness Is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patternsby Gregg Colburn
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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. No library descriptions found. |
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The book is definitely worth checking out if you're at all interested in homelessness. The book isn't so academic as to put you to sleep, but it does offer data to back up their opinions. As a worker in an emergency shelter, it gave me a better grasp of the overall system and some of what my guests and I are up against as we're trying to get them housed.
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