Preventing and ending family homelessness

Molly K. Richard and Marybeth Shinn

Chapter 28 in Research Handbook on Homelessness, 2024, pp 374-387 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter summarizes research evidence on what works to address family homelessness (sheltered, unsheltered, and doubled-up) in the realm of housing and human service solutions. It examines effective interventions to re-house families who become homeless (e.g. housing subsidies) and prevent it for families at risk (e.g. rental assistance, legal aid to prevent eviction). We end with discussing broader political, economic, and social changes need, including expanding affordable housing and the social safety net (welfare), addressing structural racism, and protecting rights of women and children. Most of the scholarship, policy, and programs the chapter reviews are from the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Geography; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.elgaronline.com/doi/10.4337/9781800883413.00040 (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:20572_28

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.e-elgar.com

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Darrel McCalla ().