Exits from and Returns to Homelessness

Piliavin, Irving; Wright, Bradley E.; Mare, Robert D.; Westerfelt, Alex

doi:10.1086/604164

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“…1 Ordinary least squares regression was used to examine, for the entire shelter 1 A shelter "stay" is here considered to be a span of shelter utilization that both followed and preceded a thirty day absence from a shelter (Wong, Culhane and Kuhn 1997;Culhane and Kuhn 1998;Piliavin et al 1996). By using this thirty day exit criterion, a stay hereby precedes an extended time period away from shelters and assumes that, after an exit, alternate living arrangements have supplanted, not just provided temporary relief from, shelter use.…”

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Recent Incarceration History Among a Sheltered Homeless Population

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Culhane

2006

Crime & Delinquency

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This study examined incarceration histories and shelter use patterns of 7,022 persons staying in public shelters in New York City. Through matching administrative shelter records with data on releases from New York State prisons and New York City jails, 23.1% of a point-prevalent shelter population was identified as having had an incarceration within the previous two-year period. Persons entering shelter following a jail episode (17.0%) exhibited different shelter stay patterns than those having exited a prison episode (7.7%), leading to the conclusion that different dynamics predominate and different interventions are called for in preventing homelessness among persons released from jail and from prison.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Recent Incarceration History Among a Sheltered Homeless Population

Metraux

Culhane

2006

Crime & Delinquency

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“…Interestingly U.S. studies of homelessness, many of which are based on shelter populations, often find that the duration of homelessness is significantly longer for men than for women (Piliavin et al 1993;Culhane and Kuhn 1998;Allgood and Warren 2003), but that women are more likely to return to homelessness (Piliavin et al 1996).…”

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A Journey Home: What Drives How Long People Are Homeless?

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This paper uses survival analysis to model exits over time from two alternative notions of homelessness. We are unique in being able to account for time-invariant, unobserved heterogeneity. We find that duration dependence has an inverted U-shape with exit rates initially increasing (indicating positive duration dependence) and then falling. Like previous researchers, we find results consistent with negative duration dependence in models which ignore unobserved heterogeneity. Exit rates out of homelessness fall with age and with the education level of mothers. Women are more likely than men to exit homelessness when it is broadly conceived, but appear to be less likely to exit when it is narrowly defined. Finally, higher paternal education and exemptions from welfare-related activity requirements due to either mental or physical health conditions are all associated with higher exit rates.JEL classification: I3, R2, C4

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“…Although this is a possibility, we feel that it is an unlikely explanation. Results from observational studies of the course of homelessness (Koegel et al, 1994;Piliavin, Wright, Mare & Westerfelt, 1996) indicate that when no services are offered, many individuals are unable to maintain consistent housing over time. In addition, some evidence suggests that without case management (Chandler et al, 1996), or when there is a short duration of services received (Thornicroft et al, 1995), change in support is not likely to be observed.…”

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