Housing Choice
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,20 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Federal aid to housing
ISBN :
Homelessness Is a Housing Problem
Author : Gregg Colburn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520383796
Book Description
Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisis in America and reveals the structural conditions that underlie it. In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area. Using accessible statistical analysis, they test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city—including mental illness, drug use, poverty, weather, generosity of public assistance, and low-income mobility—and find that none explain the regional variation observed across the country. Instead, housing market conditions, such as the cost and availability of rental housing, offer a far more convincing account. With rigor and clarity, Homelessness Is a Housing Problem explores U.S. cities' diverse experiences with housing precarity and offers policy solutions for unique regional contexts.
Housing First
Author : Sam Tsemberis
Publisher : Hazelden Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781616496494
Book Description
As an evidence-based practice, Housing First has not only been proven to be successful in ending homelessness, but is also embraced as the most cost-effective solution. Today, the Housing First model is being implemented in hundreds of communities across the United States, Canada and Europe. As the model evolves one thing remains constant: Housing First ends homelessness. Housing First is simple: provide housing first, and then combine that housing with supportive treatment services in mental and physical health, substance abuse, education, and employment.Housing First details:solid, actionable information about the program's philosophy, operations, and administrationthe composition, staffing structures, and day-to-day operations of the clinical and support servicespractices in client assessment and engagementproperty management operationsthe best protocols for assisting clients with the search for housing, relationships with landlords, and the overall "settling in" processthe research evidence for the effectiveness of the Pathways modelThe Pathways model has been remarkably successful in ending chronic homelessness. Since its founding, housing retention rates have remained at 85 – 90 percent even among individuals who have not succeeded in other programs. Not only is Housing First effective at keeping people housed and working toward recovery, it has also proven to be incredibly cost-effective.
Permanent Supportive Housing
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,98 MB
Release : 2018-08-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309477042
Book Description
Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over the years, concomitant with fluctuations in the economy and changes in the demographics of and attitudes toward poor and disenfranchised citizens. In recent decades, federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the philanthropic community have worked hard to develop and implement programs to solve the challenges of homelessness, and progress has been made. However, much more remains to be done. Importantly, the results of various efforts, and especially the efforts to reduce homelessness among veterans in recent years, have shown that the problem of homelessness can be successfully addressed. Although a number of programs have been developed to meet the needs of persons experiencing homelessness, this report focuses on one particular type of intervention: permanent supportive housing (PSH). Permanent Supportive Housing focuses on the impact of PSH on health care outcomes and its cost-effectiveness. The report also addresses policy and program barriers that affect the ability to bring the PSH and other housing models to scale to address housing and health care needs.
Occupancy Requirements of Subsidized Multifamily Housing Programs
Author : United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Housing
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Apartment houses
ISBN :
Book Description
State Housing Finance Authorities
Author : United States. Office of Small Town Services and Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 41,13 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Housing
ISBN :
Book Description
Management and Effectiveness of Federal Housing Programs in Southern California
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Housing and Community Development
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 32,5 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Federal aid to community development
ISBN :
Book Description
Golden Gates
Author : Conor Dougherty
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 052556022X
Book Description
A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction • Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism • Named a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the New York Post • Named one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2020 by Fortune • Named A Must-Read Book of 2020 by Apartment Therapy • Runner-Up General Nonfiction: San Francisco Book Festival • A Planetizen Top Urban Planning Book of 2020 • Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice “Tells the story of housing in all its complexity.” —NPR Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties of the homeless. The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation’s future has become a cautionary tale. With propulsive storytelling and ground-level reporting, New York Times journalist Conor Dougherty chronicles America’s housing crisis from its West Coast epicenter, peeling back the decades of history and economic forces that brought us here and taking readers inside the activist movements that have risen in tandem with housing costs.
Tenants' Rights
Author : Myron Moskovitz
Publisher : Nolo
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 20,95 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780873373777
Book Description
Answers legal questions of concern to tenants and explains how to deal with a landlord who is acting unfairly
The Voucher Promise
Author : Eva Rosen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,12 MB
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691172560
Book Description
"This book examines the Housing Voucher Choice Program, colloquially known as "Section 8," and the effect of the program on low-income families living in Park Heights in Baltimore. In a new era of housing policy that hopes to solve poverty with opportunity in the form of jobs, social networks, education, and safety, the program offers the poor access to a new world: safe streets, good schools, and well-paying jobs through housing vouchers. The system should, in theory, give recipients access to housing in a wide range of neighborhoods, but in The Voucher Promise, Rosen examines how the housing policy, while showing great promise, faces critical limitations. Rosen spent over a year living in a Park Heights neighborhood, getting to know families, accompanying them on housing searches, spending time on front stoops, and learning about the history of the neighborhood and the homeowners who had settled there decades ago. She examines why, when low-income renters are given the opportunity to afford a home in a more resource-rich neighborhood, they do not relocate to one, observing where they instead end up and other opportunities housing vouchers may offer them"--
