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Evaluating A Typology Of Homelessness Across A Midwest State, Devin Michael Hanson Jan 2018

Evaluating A Typology Of Homelessness Across A Midwest State, Devin Michael Hanson

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EVALUATING A TYPOLOGY OF HOMELESSNESS ACROSS A MIDWEST STATE

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DEVIN M. HANSON

August 2018

Advisor: Dr. Paul Toro

Major: Psychology (Clinical)

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy

Identifying a typology remains an effective method to summarize and distinguish the different ways that people experience homelessness in communities. More than twenty years ago researchers in the northeast United States developed an approach to create a typology of homelessness by using electronic records of shelter stays and two dimensions of homelessness; number of episodes, and length of time spent homeless. The three-part typology Randall Kuhn and Dennis Culhane identified has shaped the …