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Chronic Homelessness: A Research Brief
Dennis Culhane
This fact sheet provides a brief history and current understanding of chronic, episodic, and transitional homelessness. As understanding of homelessness in the United States has evolved, researchers have come to recognize chronic homelessness as a...
Applying Cluster Analysis to Test a Typology of Homelessness by Pattern of Shelter Utilization: Results from the Analysis of Administrative Data
Randall Kuhn, Dennis Culhane
This study tests a typology of homelessness using administrative data on public shelter use in New York City (1988–1995) and Philadelphia (1991–1995). Cluster analysis is used to produce three groups (transitionally, episodically, and chronically...
Rethinking Homelessness Prevention among Persons with Serious Mental Illness
Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Stephen Metraux, Dennis Culhane
During recent years, the need to consider effective and innovative ways to prevent and end homelessness among individuals with serious mental illness has been abetted by an increased and more sophisticated understanding of the composition of the...
A Data-based Re-design of Housing Supports and Services for Aging Adults who Experience Homelessness
Dennis Culhane, Steve Metraux, Randall Kuhn
This report examines health services use and population dynamics among the aging homeless population in Los Angeles. Evidence suggests that adverse health outcomes lead to homelessness, and the conditions related to homelessness lead to or...
Making Homelessness Programs Accountable to Consumers, Funders and the Public
Dennis Culhane, David Eldridge, Robert Rosenheck, Carol Wilkins
This paper addresses the issue of accountability of programs involved in the treatment of homeless individuals. This paper discusses how different types of performance measurement can be used to improve the accountability of homeless programs to...
4.2 The Strategic Response to Homelessness in Finland: Exploring Innovation and Coordination within a National Plan to Reduce and Prevent Homelessness
Nicholas Pleace, Marcus Knutagård, Dennis P. Culhane, Riitta Granfelt
This chapter describes the results of an international review of the Finnish National Homelessness Strategy, covering the Paavo I and Paavo II programs, which took place between 2008–2011 and 2012–2015. The strategy focused heavily on long-term...
Characteristics and Likelihood of Ongoing Homelessness among Unsheltered Veterans
Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Thomas Byrne, Daniel Treglia, Dennis P Culhane
Unsheltered homelessness is an important phenomenon yet difficult to study due to lack of data. The Veterans Health Administration administers a universal homelessness screener, which identifies housing status for Veterans screening positive for...
A Global Framework for Understanding and Measuring Homelessness
Volker Busch-Geertsemaa, Dennis Culhane, Suzanne Fitzpatrick
There is no globally agreed definition of homelessness. Even within countries, the topic can be contentious. At the same time, we know we can’t measure and solve a problem we can’t define, so in 2015 IGH made developing shared language on...
The Finnish Homelessness Strategy – An International Review
Nicholas Pleace, Dennis Culhane, Riitta Granfelt, Marcus Knutagård
The review covered the whole of the programme to reduce long-term homelessness implemented during 2008–2011 and 2012–2015, Paavo I and Paavo II. The review focused on the programme as a whole as well as its different aspects from the point of view...
The 2016 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress: Part 1, Point in Time Estimates
Megan Henry, Rian Watt, Lily Rosenthal, Azim Shivji, Jill Khadduri, Dennis P Culhane
On a single night in 2016, 549,928 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States. A majority (68%) was staying in emergency shelters, transitional housing programs, or safe havens, and 32 percent were in unsheltered locations.  Over one...
Universal Screening for Homelessness and Risk for Homelessness in the Veterans Health Administration
Thomas H. Byrne, Dennis P. Culhane, Jamison D. Fargo, Vincent R. Kane, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery
We examined data for all veterans who completed the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) national homelessness screening instrument between October 1, 2012, and January 10, 2013. Among veterans who were not engaged with the US Department of...
Homelessness in 2030: Essays on possible futures
Boróka Fehér, Dennis P. Culhane, Eoin O’Sullivan, Freek Spinnewijn, Guy Johnson, Ilkka Taipale, Julien Damon, Lars Benjaminsen, Marcus Knutagård, Maria Ohisalo, Marybeth Shinn, Michele Lancione, Nicholas Pleace, Nóra Teller, Riitta Granfelt, Saija Turunen, Stephen Gaetz, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Volker Busch-Geertsema
This is a collection of essays that includes a wide range of scenarios: from the optimistic to the dystopian, from the pragmatic to the idealistic, and many more in between. The idea of this book is to distill the wisdom needed to end homelessness...
References
Abramovich, A. I. (2013). No fixed address: Young, queer and restless. In S. Gaetz, B. O’Grady, K. Buccieri, J. Karabanow & A. Marsolais (Eds.), Youth homelessness in Canada: Implications for policy and practice, (pp. 387-403). Toronto: Canadian...
European Journal of Homelessness, Volume 10.3, 2016
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Content Editorial Articles Researching Homelessness in Europe Theoretical Perspectives Nicholas Pleace  Homelessness Research and Policy Development:Examples from the Nordic Countries  Lars Benjaminsen and Marcus Knutagård An Emerging Research...
Presentations from the 2017 National Symposium to End Youth Homelessness
Point Source Youth's first National Symposium on Solutions to End Youth Homelessness convened 300+ stakeholders and 55 speakers—federal and city government officials and policymakers, nonprofit leaders, youth advocates, funders, and researchers in...