Family Shelter Entry and Re-entry During the Recession in Hennepin County: The Role of Race, Residential Location, and Family Earnings

Maria Hanratty

Housing Policy Debate, 2016, vol. 26, issue 2, 334-345

Abstract: This article examines the extent to which shelter entry and re-entry increased during the Great Recession (December 2007--December 2009) in Hennepin County, Minnesota. Among successive cohorts of families entering the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), Black families were 23% more likely to enter shelter if they were in the 2008--2009 cohort and 28% more likely to enter shelter if they were in the 2010 cohort than if they entered SNAP in 2004--2005. In addition, families who left shelter in 2009 were 39% more likely and families leaving shelter in 2010 were 63% more likely to re-enter shelter than those leaving shelter in 2004--2006. Only a small part of the increases in shelter entry and shelter re-entry was explained by reductions in family earnings. This suggests that the increases in shelter entry and re-entry may have been caused by other factors, such as the decline in the availability of affordable housing.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2015.1072572

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