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What happens to household formation in a recession?
Journal of Urban Economics
Year: 2013
While many studies have investigated the determinants of housing demand, very few studies have focused on how economic conditions affect the formation of potential households directly. Potential households may choose to delay entry into the housing market by remaining with … Continue reading
Transitioning from Homelessness: A “Fresh-Start” Event
Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research
Year: 2013
Permanent supportive housing (PSH) has been recognized as central to the goal of ending chronic homelessness. This qualitative study considers the positive and negative expectations of 31 men and women in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles who are … Continue reading
The Beliefs of Homeless Service Managers About Policy Advocacy: Definitions, Legal Understanding, and Motivations to Participate
Administration in Social Work
Year: 2013
Policy advocacy involvement by human service providers is important to help protect vital services and government funding streams, but for many organizations participation is limited. Meanwhile, scholars know little about managers’ beliefs about advocacy, compromising our ability to create effective … Continue reading
Permanent Supportive Housing: Addressing Homelessness and Health Disparities?
American Journal of Public Health
Year: 2013
Permanent supportive housing (PSH) is an intervention to address long-term homelessness. Evidence has resulted in a shift in US policy toward using PSH rather than shelters and transitional housing. Despite recognizing that individuals transitioning from homelessness to PSH experience a … Continue reading
Interlocking Boards of Trustees and Grant Acquisition Among Homeless Service Organizations
Public Performance & Management Review
Year: 2013
Research on trustee effectiveness has traditionally focused on board attributes like size and demographics, but networks are a better mechanism to consider the implications of boards for resource procurement. This research utilizes board of trustee interlocks from a sample of … Continue reading
Getting Home: Outcomes from Housing High Cost Homeless Hospital Patients
Economic Roundtable
Year: 2013
This study evaluates outcomes from April 2011 to May 2013 for 163 hospital patients screened by the 10th Decile Project in Los Angeles, which works with hospitals to identify the 10 percent of homeless patients with the highest public and … Continue reading
The 2012 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress Part 1: Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness
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
Los Angeles County’s Enterprise Linkages Project: An Example of the Use of Integrated Data Systems in Making Data-Driven Policy and Program Decisions
California Journal of Politics and Policy
Year: 2012
Governments at all levels are tasked with administering public programs that serve large numbers of people. The use of integrated data systems (IDS), which can be used to link administrative records from multiple public agencies into one database, offer a … Continue reading
Keeping the Lights On: How Government Funding Concerns Drive the Advocacy Agendas of Nonprofit Homeless Service Providers
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
Year: 2012
Human service nonprofits have historically played an important role in advocating on behalf of the vulnerable populations that they serve. Growth in privatization has led many scholars and practitioners to wonder if increased dependence on government funds would compromise this … Continue reading
Collaboration, Public-Private Intermediary Organizations, and the Transformation of Advocacy in the Field of Homeless Services
Ameican Review of Public Administration
Year: 2012
Participation in collaborative advocacy organizations is one of the most common advocacy tactics pursued by nonprofit organizations. However, field-level dynamics and norms around collaboration may be changing with the growth of public-private intermediary organizations. Using a lens that brings together … Continue reading