Homelessness among at-risk families with children in twenty American cities

Social Service Review

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 485-510

  Fertig, Angela R ^a   Reingold, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 55849146299     PISSN: 00377961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/592335     Document Type: Article

References (55)

1. Bassuk, Ellen L., John C. Buckner, Jennifer N. Perloff, and Shari S. Bassuk. 1998. "Prevalence of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders among Homeless and LowIncome Housed Mothers." American Journal of Psychiatry 155 (11): 1561-64.
2. Bassuk, Ellen L., John C. Buckner, Linda F. Weinreb, Angela Browne, Shari S. Bassuk, Ree Dawson, and Jennifer N. Perloff. 1997. "Homelessness in Female-Headed Families: Childhood and Adult Risk and Protective Factors." American Journal of Public Health 87 (2): 241-48.
3. Bassuk, Ellen L., and Stephanie Geller. 2006. "The Role of Housing and Services in Ending Family Homelessness." Housing Policy Debate 17 (4): 781-806.
4. Bassuk, Ellen L., and Lynn Rosenberg. 1988. "Why Does Family Homelessness Occur? A Case-Control Study." American Journal of Public Health 78 (7): 783-88.
5. Bassuk, Ellen L., Linda F. Weinreb, John C. Buckner, Angela Browne, Amy Salomon, and Shari S. Bassuk. 1996. "The Characteristics and Needs of Homeless and Low-Income Mothers." Journal of the American Medical Association 276 (8): 640-46.
6. Benda, Brent B. 1990. "Crime, Drug Abuse and Mental Illness: A Comparison of Homeless Men and Women." Journal of Social Service Research 13 (3): 39-60.
7. Bloom, Dan, Mary Farrell, and Barbara Fink, with Diana Adams-Ciardullo. 2002. "Welfare Time Limits: State Policies, Implementation, and Effects on Families." Report to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (contract no. 282-00-0014, task no. 002). Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, New York.
8. Bohanon, Cecil. 1991. "The Economic Correlates of Homelessness in Sixty Cities." Social Science Quarterly 72 (4): 817-25.
9. Burt, Martha R. 2001a. "Homeless Families, Singles, and Others: Findings from the 1996 National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients." Housing Policy Debate 12 (4): 737-80.
10. _2001b. "What Will It Take to End Homelessness?" Issue Brief, September. Urban Institute, Washington, DC.
11. Burt, Martha R., Laudan Y. Aron, Tobe Douglas, Jesse Valente, Edgar Lee, and Britta Iwen. 1999. "Homelessness: Programs and the People They Serve; Findings of the National Survey of Homeless Assistance Providers and Clients." Technical report. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC.
12. Culhane, Dennis P., Stephen Metraux, Jung Min Park, Maryanne Schretzman, and Jesse Valente. 2007. "Testing a Typology of Family Homelessness Based on Patterns of Public Shelter Utilization in Four U.S. Jurisdictions: Implications for Policy and Program Planning." Housing Policy Debate 18 (1): 1-28.
13. Dworsky, Amy Lynn, and Irving Piliavin. 2000. "Homeless Spell Exits and Returns: Substantive and Methodological Elaborations on Recent Studies." Social Service Review 74 (2): 193-213.
14. Early, Dirk W. 1998. "The Role of Subsidized Housing in Reducing Homelessness: An Empirical Investigation Using Micro-Data." Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 17 (4): 687-96.
15. _. 2004. "The Determinants of Homelessness and the Targeting of Housing Assistance." Journal of Urban Economics 55 (1): 195-214.
16. Elliott, Marta, and Lauren J. Krivo. 1991. "Structural Determinants of Homelessness in the United States." Social Problems 38 (1): 113-31.
17. Glomm, Gerhard, and Andrew John. 2002. "Homelessness and Labor Markets." Regional Science and Urban Economics 32 (5): 591-606.
18. Goodman, Lisa A. 1991. "The Prevalence of Abuse among Homeless and Housed Poor Mothers: A Comparison Study." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 61 (4): 489-500.
19. HUD (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development). 2000. "Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (CHAS) Data." http://socds.huduser.org/chas/index.html.
20. _. 2005. "County Level Data File." Fair Market Rent data. http://www.huduser.org/ datasets/fmr/fmr2005f/FMR_Area_2005_FMRs_CountyLevel. xls.
21. HUD (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development), Office of Community Planning and Development. 2007. The Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress. Report, February. Washington, DC: HUD, Office of Community Planning and Development.
22. Imbroscio, David L. 2008. "'United and Actuated by Some Common Impulse of Passion': Challenging the Dispersal Consensus in American Housing Policy Research." Journal of Urban Affairs 30 (2): 111-30.
23. Institute for Family and Social Responsibility. 2000. "Final Report on Client Study of the Community Social Services Study of the Impact of Indiana's Welfare Reforms." Report no. 00-05 (September 1). Indiana University, Institute for Family and Social Responsibility, Bloomington.
24. Jencks, Christopher. 1994. The Homeless. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
25. Kessler, Ronald C., Gavin Andrews, Daniel K. Mroczek, Bedirhan T. Ustun, and Hans-Ulrich Wittchen. 1998. "The World Health Organization Composite International Diagnostic Interview Short-Form (CIDI-SF)." International journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 7 (4): 171-85.
26. Lee, Barrett A., Townsand Price-Spratlen, and James W. Kanan. 2003. "Determinants of Homelessness in Metropolitan Areas." Journal of Urban Affairs 25 (3): 335-55.
27. Lehmann, Erika R., Philip H. Kass, Christiana M. Drake, and Sara B. Nichols. 2007. "Risk Factors for First-Time Homelessness in Low-Income Women." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 77 (1): 20-28.
28. Letiecq, Bethany L., Elaine A. Anderson, and Sally A. Koblinsky. 1998. "Social Support of Homeless and Housed Mothers: A Comparison of Temporary and Permanent Housing Arrangements." Family Relations 47 (4): 415-21.
29. Loprest, Pamela J. 1999. "How Families That Left Welfare Are Doing: A National Picture." New Federalism: National Survey of America's Families, report no. B-1. Urban Institute, Washington, DC.
30. Ma, Christine T., Lauren Gee, and Margot B. Kushel. 2008. "Associations between Housing Instability and Food Insecurity with Health Care Access in Low-Income Children." Ambulatory Pediatrics 8 (1): 50-57.
31. Main, Thomas J. 1998. "How to Think about Homelessness: Balancing Structural and Individual Causes." Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless 7 (1): 41-54.
32. McPherson, Miller, Lynn Smith-Lovin, and Matthew E. Brashears. 2006. "Social Isolation in America: Changes in Core Discussion Networks over Two Decades." American Sociological Review 71 (3): 353-75.
33. National Coalition for the Homeless and the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. 2006. "A Dream Denied: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities." Report, January. http://www.nationalhomeless. org/publications/reports.html.
34. Phelan, Jo C., and Bruce G. Link. 1999. "Who Are 'the Homeless'? Reconsidering the Stability and Composition of the Homeless Population." American Journal of Public Health 89 (9): 1334-38.
35. Quigley; John M., Steven Raphael, and Eugene Smolensky. 2001. "Homeless in America, Homeless in California." Review of Economics and Statistics 83 (1): 37-51.
36. Salomon, Amy, Shari S. Bassuk, and Margaret G. Brooks. 1996. "Patterns of Welfare Use among Poor and Homeless Women." American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 66 (4): 510-25.
37. Shinn, Marybeth, Jamie Gottlieb, Jessica L. Wett, Ajay Bahl, Arnold Cohen, and Deborah Baron Ellis. 2007. "Predictors of Homelessness among Older Adults in New York City-Disability, Economic, Human, and Social Capital and Stressful Events." Journal of Health Psychology 12 (5): 696-708.
38. Shinn, Marybeth, James R. Knickman, and Beth C. Weitzman. 1991. "Social Relationships and Vulnerability to Becoming Homeless among Poor Families." American Psychologist 46 (1): 1180-87.
39. Shinn, Marybeth, Beth C. Weitzman, Daniela Stojanovic, James R. Knickman, Lucila Jiménez, Lisa Duchon, Susan James, and David H. Krantz. 1998. "Predictors of Homelessness among Families in New York City: From Shelter Request to Housing Stability." American Journal of Public Health 88 (11): 1651-57.
40. Shlay, Anne B., and Peter H. Rossi. 1992. "Social Science Research and Contemporary Studies of Homelessness." Annual Review of Sociology 18:129-60.
41. Sosin, Michael R. 1989. "Homelessness in Chicago: A Study Sheds New Light on an Old Problem." Public Welfare 47 (1): 22-28.
42. Stainbrook, Kristin A., and John Hornik. 2006. "Similarities in the Characteristics and Needs of Women with Children in Homeless Family and Domestic Violence Shelters." Families in Society 87 (1): 53-62.
43. Tischler, Victoria A., Alison Rademeyer, and Panos Vostanis. 2007. "Mothers Experiencing Homelessness: Mental Health, Support and Social Care Needs." Health and Social Care in the Community 15 (3): 246-53.
44. Tischler, Victoria A., and Panos Vostanis. 2007. "Homeless Mothers: Is There a Relationship between Coping Strategies, Mental Health and Goal Achievement?" Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology 17 (2): 85-102.
45. Toohey, Siobhan M., Marybeth Shinn, and Beth C. Weitzman. 2004. "Social Networks and Homelessness among Women Heads of Household." American Journal of Community Psychology 33 (1-2): 7-20.
46. Urban Institute. 2004. "How Are Families from America's Worst Public Housing Faring?" Transcript of First Tuesdays forum, October 5. Urban Institute, Washington, DC. http://www.urban.org/publications/900750.html.
47. U.S. Census Bureau. n.d. "Small Area Poverty and Income Estimates." County and city-level poverty rate data. http://www.census.gov/ hhes/www/saipe/saipe.html (accessed August 5, 2008).
48. U.S. Department of Labor. n.d. Local Area Unemployment Statistics database. http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/outsidedsp?survey= la (accessed August 5, 2008).
49. U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Climatic Data Center. 1992. "Climatography of the United States, Number 81." http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/norms/usnormalshist.html.
50. Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi, Isil Çelimli, Douglas Miller, Alexandra Murphy, and Beauty Turner. 2004. "Chicago Public Housing Transformation: A Research Report." Working paper. Columbia University, Center for Urban Research and Policy, New York.
51. Weitzman, Beth C. 1989. "Pregnancy and Childbirth: Risk Factors for Homelessness?" Family Planning Perspectives 21 (4): 175-78.
52. Wong, Yin-Ling Irene, Dennis P. Culhane, and Randall Kuhn. 1997. "Predictors of Exit and Reentry among Family Shelter Users in New York City." Social Service Review 71 (3): 441-62.
53. Wong, Yin-Ling Irene, Irving Piliavin, and Bradley R. Entner Wright. 1998. "Residential Transitions among Homeless Families and Homeless Single Individuals: A Comparison Study." Journal of Social Service Research 24 (1-2): 1-27.
54. Wood David L., Burciaga Valdez, Toshi Hayashi, and Albert Shen. 1990. "Health of Homeless Children and Housed, Poor Children." Pediatrics 86 (6): 858-66.
55. Wright, Bradley R. Entner, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, and Phil A. Silva. 1998. "Factors Associated with Doubled-Up Housing-a Common Precursor to Homelessness." Social Service Review 72 (1): 92-111.