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Title: Do Local Economic Conditions Affect Homelessness? Impact of Area Housing Market Factors, Unemployment, and Poverty on Community Homeless Rates

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: This article estimates the impact of local housing and labor market conditions on area homelessness using the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD’s) annual point-in-time counts of homelessness from 2007 to 2014. In cross-sectional models, the median rent, the share of households in rental housing, and the poverty rate have strong positive impacts on homelessness. Once area-fixed effects are included, only the median rent remains positive and significant. However, fixed-effect models find a positive relationship between poverty and homelessness in communities that maintain right-to-shelter policies, suggesting constraints in shelter bed supply may limit responses of homelessness to changes in economic conditions.

Url: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10511482.2017.1282885

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Authors: Hanratty, Maria

Periodical (Full): Housing Policy Debate

Issue: 4

Volume: 27

Pages: 640-655

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Housing and Segregation, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other, Poverty and Welfare

Countries: United States