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Beyond Encampments: An Evidence-Based Path to Solving Canada’s Homelessness Crisis
The Lancet Regional Health - Americas
Year: 2026
Homeless encampments have become a visible and persistent feature of Canada’s housing crisis, intensifying debates over public safety and encampment removals. This article argues that forced encampment sweeps are ineffective, harmful, and economically inefficient. Drawing on national data and recent … Continue reading
The Rise of Corporate Landlords: An Examination of Behavioral Differences in the Multifamily Market
Real Estate Economics
Year: 2025
This paper examines the relationship between corporate ownership and tenant outcomes in the New York City multifamily market from 2012-2023. Combining a novel data set on landlord ownership in the city, with information on eviction filings, asking rents, housing code … Continue reading
Can New Housing Supply Mitigate Displacement and Exclusion? Evidence from Los Angeles and San Francisco
Journal of the American Planning Association
Year: 2025
Problem, research strategy, and findings The housing affordability crisis is exacerbating displacement and exclusion in built-up urban neighborhoods. Although new housing development might help, it faces local opposition. Researchers have struggled to inform this debate because of data challenges, so … Continue reading
Violent Streets: How the Hardships of Unsheltered Homelessness Aggravate and Intensify Interpersonal Disputes
Deviant Behavior
Year: 2025
This study examines violence and victimization affecting people exposed to unsheltered, urban homelessness. Findings are drawn from 50 qualitative interviews and observations made while conducting fieldwork among adult members of a large Midwestern American city’s homeless population. Within the studied … Continue reading
Addressing Unsheltered Homelessness through the Joint Transitional Housing – Rapid Rehousing Program
Urban Institute, University of Kentucky College of Social Work
Year: 2025
In 2023, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) invested $485 million to help communities address unsheltered and rural homelessness, committing a portion of that funding to Joint Transitional Housing–Rapid Rehousing (TH/RRH) programs. The innovative TH/RRH model combines … Continue reading
Assessing Heterogeneity in Homelessness Risk and Housing First Supports’ Effectiveness by Race and Ethnicity among Older Adults Experiencing Homelessness: Evidence from Los Angeles County Final Report
Year: 2025
Two major demographic trends — the rapid aging and racial diversification of the U.S. population — have collided with spiraling housing costs to foment a homelessness crisis among older adults of color. Owing to structural disadvantages experienced throughout their lives, … Continue reading
Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Housing Instability Among US Health Care Workers
JAMA Network
Year: 2025
The US health workforce faces projected shortages of more than 180 000 physicians and 200 000 registered nurses in the next decade.1,2 Burnout, poor working conditions, and inadequate wages have been cited as key drivers of these shortages.2 However, the prevalence of financial hardship … Continue reading
The Health Benefits of Rent Control: A Policy Brief for Public Health Practitioners
Health in Partnership
Year: 2025
A stable, affordable, quality home is a basic human need and a bedrock of health. Whether one rents or owns, a home should provide shelter, dignity, and allow us to be a part of a community’s social, political and economic … Continue reading
Who Owns America: Mapping Corporate Ownership of Residential Land
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Center for Geospatial Solutions
Year: 2025
This report from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Center for Geospatial Solutions explores the current state of corporate ownership of residential land and housing in the United States. Much of the academic and media attention on the … Continue reading
Who Is LIHTC Built for? The Distribution of Affordable Housing Units by Rents, Tenant Incomes, and Project Features in California
Housing Policy Debate
Year: 2025
The Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program relies on housing developers to build affordable housing units. Developers consider financial feasibility and programmatic regulations when planning projects, and one central project feature is the affordability of units. Decisions around unit affordability … Continue reading