Womens Health Issues
Year: 2017
Among individuals experiencing homelessness, unsheltered status is associated with poor health and access to care and an increased risk for premature death. Insufficient research has explored gender differences in these outcomes; the objective of this study was to address this … Continue reading
The Journal of Early Adolescence
Year: 2017
Youth who receive services from public mental health, child welfare and delinquency, and homeless systems are often exposed to a number of overlapping child, family, school, and community risk factors. Minimal research, however, has focused on the extent to which … Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Year: 2016
In 2001, the U.S. Congress required that HUD fund communities to implement information systems to track the use of homelessness services, with the understanding that ending homelessness requires knowledge about the size of the problem and the way in which … Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Year: 2016
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) releases the Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (AHAR) in two parts. Part 1 provides Point-in-Time (PIT) estimates, offering a snapshot of homelessness—both sheltered and unsheltered— on a single night. The one-night … Continue reading
Grand Challenges for Social Work
Year: 2019-2020
In this fast-paced year leading up to the Presidential Election of 2020, reducing housing insecurity and homelessness is gaining surprising traction. With homelessness rates rising in major cities, it seems this decades-long crisis has no end in sight. We respectfully … Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: Office of Community Planning and Development
Year: 2019-2020
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) 2019 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) Part 1 provides national estimates of homelessness in the United States. This report furthers our understanding of homelessness in our country by looking at the … Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: Office of Community Planning and Development
Year: 2012
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) releases the Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (AHAR) in two parts. Part 1 provides Point-in-Time (PIT) estimates, offering a snapshot of homelessness—both sheltered and unsheltered— on a single night. The one-night … Continue reading
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Community Planning and Development
Year: 2013
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s 2012 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR). AHAR provides a national estimate of homelessness and presents a comprehensive understanding of who uses local shelter systems and how these systems are used. HUD has … Continue reading
Public Health Reports
Year: 2016
People who live in unsheltered situations, such as the streets, often have poorer health, less access to health care, and an increased risk of premature mortality as compared with their sheltered counterparts. The objectives of this study were to (1) … Continue reading
Psychiatric Services
Year: 2016
Objective: Data on services use, characteristics, and geographic distribution of homeless individuals who died in Philadelphia from 2009 to 2011 provided perspective on assessments of the homeless population that rely on conventional counts and surveys. Methods: Data from the City … Continue reading