The New Homelessness Revisited

Lee, Barrett A.; Tyler, Kimberly A.; Wright, James

doi:10.1146/annurev-soc-070308-115940

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“…Many European countries are now in the process of adjusting or refining their national definitions of homelessness to fit more closely with the ETHOS definition (BuschGeertsema 2010). Importantly, the conceptualization of homelessness has shifted over time with the recognition that the issue of inadequate housing is no longer confined solely to derelict single men, but is a broader social problem facing women, young people, and families (Lee et al 2010).…”

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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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“…In the United States, for example, over 600,000 people are homeless on any given day (Henry et al 2013), while over 100,000 Australians are estimated to have been homeless on census night 2011 (ABS 2012). These estimates of the point-in-time incidence of homelessness dramatically understate the number of people who will ever be affected by homelessness at some point in their lives ; Lee et al 2010). …”

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A journey home: What drives how long people are homeless?

Cobb‐Clark

Herault

Scutella

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Journal of Urban Economics

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“…tight housing or labor markets), and bad luck (see, for example, O'Flaherty 2004O'Flaherty , 2010Shelton et al 2009;Gould & Williams 2010;Curtis et al 2013). Over time, society's perception of homelessness has changed as inadequate housing -once confined mainly to derelict single menbecame a broader social problem facing women, young people, and families (see McChesney 1990; Lee et al 2010;Grant et al 2013). In the United States today, for example, families with children represent the fastest growing segment of the homeless population (Tobin & Murphy 2013).…”

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Childhood Homelessness and Adult Employment: The Role of Education, Incarceration, and Welfare Receipt

Cobb‐Clark

Zhu

2015

SSRN Journal

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NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARYPeople who become homeless as a child are more likely to have lower employment rates in adulthood than those who become homeless later. Our research, using the Journey's Home survey, found by the time they are adults, those who are first homeless after the age of 15 years have an employment rate of 24%. But those who become homeless at or before the age of 15 have an employment rate of just 10%.Interestingly, those who first become homeless during the teenage years of 15 and 16 years have the worst outcomes. Homeless children and adolescents tend to have very different life paths from those who become homeless later. We also found differences by gender.For women, those who become homeless as a child are more likely to drop out of high school than those who become homeless later in life. In fact, nearly half of the employment gap between those who were homeless in childhood versus later in life is related to dropping out of high school. It is the most important factor -and a potential milestone in the path from childhood homelessness to unemployment (or being out of the labour force) in adulthood. Welfare receipt in general and specifically for mental illness-related disability payments also account for a large percentage of the employment gap.For men, dropping out of high school also plays an important role in accounting for the employment gap between those who were homeless in childhood versus later in life. Incarceration between the ages of 17 and 20 years old (inclusive) also plays a role, albeit a smaller one. However, unlike for women, welfare receipt matters little in explaining the employment gap. It's likely this gendered difference in the results is related to the strong relationship between child bearing and welfare receipt. This non-technical summary is based on a piece published in The Conversation. Find the full story here: https://theconversation.com/childhood-homelessness-makes-for-adult-unemployment-study-48887ABOUT THE AUTHORS Deborah Cobb-Clark's research agenda centres on the effect of social policy on labour market outcomes including immigration, sexual and racial harassment, health, old-age support, education and youth transitions. In particular, she is currently leading the innovative Youth in Focus Project which is analysing the pathways through which social and economic disadvantage is transmitted from parents to children in Australia. Email: d.cobbclark@unimelb.edu.au. Anna Zhu AbstractThis paper analyzes children's long-term consequences of experiencing homelessness. Our primary goal is to assess the importance of the potential pathways linking childhood homelessness to adult employment. We use novel panel data that link survey and administrative data for a sample of disadvantaged adults who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. We find that those experiencing homelessness for the first time as children are less likely to be employed than those who were never homeless as a child. For women, this relationship is largely explained by the lower educational attainme...

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The New Homelessness Revisited

Cited by 282 publications

References 127 publications

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

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

A journey home: What drives how long people are homeless?

Childhood Homelessness and Adult Employment: The Role of Education, Incarceration, and Welfare Receipt

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