Us homeless research during the 1980s and early 1990s: Approaches, lessons learned, and methodological options

Coping with Homelessness: Issues to be Tackled and Best Practices in Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 266-292

  Burt, Martha R ^a  

^a URBAN INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889395155     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780429463563-13     Document Type: Chapter

References (43)

1. Bassuk, E.L., Buckner, J.C., Weinreb, L.F., Browne, A., Bassuk, S.S., Dawson, R. and Perloff, J.N. (1997), ‘Homelessness in female-headed families: Childhood and adult risk and protective factors’, American Journal of Public Health, 87 (2), pp. 241-8.
2. Benjamin, R. (1995), ‘Inter-city homeless rates and housing and social indicators’, Washington, DC, Department of Housing and Urban Development, unpublished document.
3. Bray, R.M., Dennis, M.L. and Lambert, E. Y. (1993), Prevalence of Drug Use in the Washington, DC Metropolitan Area Homeless and Transient Population: 1991, Rockville, Md, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research.
4. Burt, M.R. (1991), Alternative Methods for Counting Homeless Children and Youth, prepared for the Department of Education, Report to Congress, 26 July.
5. Burt, M.R. (1992), Over the Edge: The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s, New York and Washington, DC, Russell Sage Foundation and the Urban Institute.
6. Burt, M.R. (1992), Practical Methods for Counting Homeless People: A Manual for State and Local Governments, Washington, DC, Interagency Council on the Homeless and Department of Housing and Urban Development.
7. Burt, M.R. (1994), comment on Dennis P. Culhane, Edmund F. Dejowski, Julie Ibanez, Elizabeth Needham and Irene Macchia’s ‘Public shelter admission rates in Philadelphia and New York City: The implications of turnover for sheltered population counts’, Housing Policy Debate, 5 (2), pp. 141-52.
8. Burt, M.R. and Cohen, B.E. (1989), America’s Homeless: Numbers, Characteristics, and the Programs that Serve Them, Washington, DC, Urban Institute Press.
9. Burt, M.R. and Cohen, B.E. (1998), Feeding the Homeless: Does the Prepared Meals Provision Help?, Washington, DC, The Urban Institute.
10. Caton, C.L.M., Shrout, P.E., Eagle, P.F., Opler, L.A., Felix, A. and Dominguez, B. (1994), ‘Risk factors for homelessness among schizophrenic men: A case-control study’, American Journal of Public Health, 84, pp. 265-70.
11. Culhane, D., Dejowski, E., Ibanez, J., Needham, E. and Macchia, I. (1994), ‘Public shelter admission rates in Philadelphia and New York City: Implications for sheltered population counts’, Housing Policy Debate, 5 (2), pp. 107-40.
12. Culhane, D.P., Lee, C.M. and Wachter, S.M. (1996), ‘Where the homeless come from: A study of the prior address distribution of families admitted to public shelters in New York city and Philadelphia’, Housing Policy Debate, 7 (2), pp. 327-66.
13. Department of Housing and Urban Development (1984), A Report to the Secretary on the Homeless and Emergency Shelters, Washington, DC, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research.
14. Department of Housing and Urban Development (1989), A Report on the 1988 National Survey of Shelters for the Homeless, Washington, DC, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research.
15. Elliott, M. and Krivo, L. (1991), ‘Structural determinants of homelessness in the United States’, Social Problems, 38 (1), pp. 113-31.
16. Farr, R., Koegel, P. and Bumam, M.A. (1986), A Study of Homelessness and Mental Illness in the Skid Row Area of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health.
17. General Accounting Office (1988), The Homeless Mentally III: Problems and Options in Estimating Numbers and Trends, Washington, DC, USGPO, GAO/RCED-88-63.
18. Herman, D.B., Susser, E.S., Struening, E.L. and Link, B.L (1997), ‘Adverse childhood experiences: Are they risk factors for adult homelessness?’, American Journal of Public Health, 87 (2), pp. 249-55.
19. Kentucky Housing Corporation (1993), Kentucky Homeless Survey Preliminary Findings, Lexington, KY, Kentucky Housing Corporation.
20. Koegel, P. and Bumam, M.A. (1991), ‘The Course of Homelessness Study: Aims and Designs’, paper presented at the 119th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Novemberl, Atlanta, Ga., Santa Monica, Ca., RAND Corporation.
21. Koegel, P., Burnam, M.A. and Morton, S.C. (1996), ‘Enumerating homeless people: Alternative strategies and their consequences’, Evaluation Review, 20, pp. 378-403.
22. Koegel, P., Melamid, E. and Burnam, M.A. (1995), ‘Childhood risk factors for homelessness among homeless adults’, American Journal of Public Health, 85 (12), pp. 1642-9.
23. Lee, B. (1989), ‘Stability and change in an urban homeless population’, Demography, 26 (2), pp. 323-34.
24. Link, B., Phelan, J., Bresnahan, M., Stueve, A., Moore, R. and Susser, E. (1995), ‘Lifetime and five-year prevalence of homelessness in the United States: New evidence on an old debate’, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 65 (3), pp. 347-54.
25. Link, B., Susser, E., Stueve, A., Phelan, J., Moore, R. and Struening, E. (1994), ‘Lifetime and five-year prevalence of homelessness in the United States’ American Journal of Public Health, 84, pp. 1907-12.
26. Mangine, S.J., Royse, D. and Wiehe, V.R. (1990), ‘Homelessness among adults raised as foster children: A survey of drop-in center users’ Psychological Reports, 61, pp. 739-45.
27. National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness (1992), Annotated Bibliography: Developing Housing for Homeless Persons with Severe Mental Illnesses, Delmar, NY, Policy Research Associates, Inc., March and September.
28. New Jersey Department of Human Services (1994), A Demographic Profde of New Jersey’s Homeless Population, Trenton, NJ, New Jersey Department of Human Services.
29. Piliavin, I., Sosin, M. and Westerfelt, A.H. (1993), ‘The duration of homeless careers: An exploratory study’, Social Service Review, 67, pp. 576-98.
30. Quigley, J.M. (1990), ‘Does rent control cause homelessness?: Taking the claim seriously’, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 9, pp. 88-93.
31. Robertson, M.J., Zlotnick, C. and Westerfelt, A. (1997), ‘Drug use disorders and treatment contact among homeless adults in Alameda County, California’, American Journal of Public Health, 87 (2), pp. 217-20.
32. Rog, D.J. and Gutman, M. (1997), ‘The Homeless Families Program: A summary of key findings’ in Isaacs, S. and Knickman, J.R. (eds), To Improve Health and Health Care, 199: The Robert Wood Johnson Anthology, San Francisco, Jossey-Bass.
33. Rossi, P. (1989), Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness, Chicago, II., The University of Chicago Press.
34. Rossi, P.H., Fisher, G.A. and Willis, G. (1986), The Condition of the Homeless in Chicago, Amherst, Ma. and Chicago, Social and Demographic Research Institute and the National Opinion Research Center.
35. Sosin, M.R., Colson, P. and Grossman, S. (1988), Homelessness in Chicago: Poverty and Pathology, Social Institutions and Social Change, Chicago, Chicago Community Trust.
36. State of Utah (1994), Utah 1993 Homeless Count, Salt Lake City, UT, Community Development Division, Department of Community and Economic Development.
37. Susser, E.S., Struening, E.L. and Conover, S.A. (1987), ‘Childhood experiences of homeless men’, American Journal of Psychiatry, 144, pp. 1599-601.
38. Susser, E.S., Lin, S.P., Conover, S.A. and Struening, E.L. (1991), ‘Childhood antecedents of homelessness in psychiatric patients’, American Journal of Psychiatry, 148, pp. 1026-30.
39. Tessler, R.C. and Dennis, D.L. (1989), A Synthesis of NIMH-funded Research Concerning Persons Who Are Homeless and Mentally III, Rockville, Md, National Institute of Mental Health, Division of Education and Service Systems Liaison, Program for the Homeless Mentally 111.
40. Vemez, G., Bumam, M.A., McGlynn, E.A., Trude, S. and Mittman, B. (1988), Review of California's Program for the Homeless Mentally Disabled, Santa Monica, Ca., The RAND Corporation.
41. Weitzman, B.C., Knickman, J.R. and Shinn, M. (1992), ‘Predictors of shelter use among low- income families: Psychiatric history, substance abuse, and victimization’, American Journal of Public Health, 82, pp. 1547-50.
42. Wong, I., Culhane, D.P. and Kuhn, R. (1997), ‘Predictors of shelter exit and return among homeless families in New York City’, Social Service Review, 71 (3), pp. 441-62.
43. Wood, D., Valdez, R.B., Hayashi, T. and Shen, A. (1990), ‘Homeless and housed families in Los Angeles: A study comparing demographic, economic, and family function characteristics’, American Journal of Public Health, 80, pp. 1049-52