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Posthumously Assessing a Homeless Population: Services Use and Characteristics
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
Developing a Global Framework for Conceptualising and Measuring Homelessness
Habitat International
Year: 2016
Homelessness has long been recognised as a global phenomenon, affecting poorer populations in both the developed and developing worlds. However, acute housing need has often struggled to achieve the same level of priority at an international level as the satisfaction … Continue reading
The Potential of Linked Administrative Data for Advancing Homelessness Research and Policy
European Journal of Homelessness
Year: 2016
Administrative data enable planners, researchers and programme evaluators to examine service use on a population basis, longitudinally. The potential for linking administrative data across multiple systems further allows for a more comprehensive view of various subpopulations, their patterns of service … Continue reading
L.A. County Spends $1 Billion on Services for Single, Homeless Adults
The Chronicle of Social Change
Year: 2016
Researchers found that just six Los Angeles County agencies spent nearly $1 billion in 2015 on services for single adults experiencing homelessness, according to a report released in January 2016. Despite this staggering figure, the number of individuals experiencing homelessness … Continue reading
Rise to the challenge and fight street homelessness
New York Daily News
Year: 2015
When modern homelessness first emerged, our nation was shocked at the spectacle of men and women bedding down on the streets of large cities, and even small towns. For those of us who rallied to bring our homeless neighbors in … Continue reading
The Recovery-Oriented Care Collaborative: A Practice-Based Research Network to Improve Care for People With Serious Mental Illnesses
Psychiatric Services
Year: 2015
Practice-based research networks (PBRNs) create continuous collaborations among academic researchers and practitioners. Most PBRNs have operated in primary care, and less than 5% of federally registered PBRNs include mental health practitioners. In 2012 the first PBRN in the nation focused … Continue reading
The 2015 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: 2015
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 2014 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress Part 2: Estimates of Homelessness in the United States
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development: Office of Community Planning and Development
Year: 2015
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) 2014 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) Part 2. The AHAR provides national estimates of homelessness in the United States. Like previous annual reports, this report is the second part in a … Continue reading
Homeless Services Continuums of Care: A Report of Research Findings
The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
Year: 2015
Starting in the mid-1990s, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) began incentivizing collaboration among homeless services providers in order to improve service coordination and help local areas develop a community-wide approach to meeting the needs of … Continue reading
Permanent Supportive Housing for Homeless Families Initative: Evaluation Findings
Harder+Company
Year: 2015
First 5 LA contracted with Harder+Company Community Research (Harder+Company) in July 2014 to conduct a nine-month formative evaluation of the Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) for Homeless Families Initiative. The evaluation included programmatic efforts that had been implemented through late 2014. … Continue reading