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Help In Time: An Evaluation Of Philadelphia's Community-Based Homelessness Prevention Program, Yin-Ling I. Wong, Meg Koppel, Dennis P. Culhane, Stephen Metraux, David E. Eldridge, Amy Hillier, Helen R. Lee
Help In Time: An Evaluation Of Philadelphia's Community-Based Homelessness Prevention Program, Yin-Ling I. Wong, Meg Koppel, Dennis P. Culhane, Stephen Metraux, David E. Eldridge, Amy Hillier, Helen R. Lee
Dennis P. Culhane
This report provides an evaluation of Philadelphia's neighborhood-based homelessness prevention initiative. Results indicate that nearly all households served do not become homeless. But it is unclear if households would have become homeless had they not been served. Recommendations are made for targeting prevention interventions to families requesting shelter.
One-Year Rates Of Public Shelter Utilization By Race/Ethnicity, Age, Sex And Poverty Status For New York City (1990 And 1995) And Philadelphia (1995), Dennis P. Culhane, Stephen Metraux
One-Year Rates Of Public Shelter Utilization By Race/Ethnicity, Age, Sex And Poverty Status For New York City (1990 And 1995) And Philadelphia (1995), Dennis P. Culhane, Stephen Metraux
Dennis P. Culhane
This study calculates public homeless shelter utilization rates by sex, race/ethnicity and age status for New York City (1990 and 1995) and Philadelphia (fiscal year 1995) to determine the relative risk for shelter use among different demographic groups in these cities. The resulting shelter utilization rates reveal large disparities among age groups and across racial/ethnic groups, as well as showing different trends in shelter utilization among the two cities. Among the results reported, the rate of shelter utilization declined by 11% in New York City over this period, while the overall utilization rate in Philadelphia has increased to where it …
Family Dynamics, Housing, And Homelessness Among Women In New York City Shelters, Stephen Metraux, Dennis P. Culhane
Family Dynamics, Housing, And Homelessness Among Women In New York City Shelters, Stephen Metraux, Dennis P. Culhane
Dennis P. Culhane
This study looks at two sets of women who stayed in New York City home less shel ters in 1992—one set as part of a fam ily and the other set as in dividuals—and at fac tors as sociated with an in creased risk of their ex periencing re peat shel ter stays. De scriptive sta tistics and event his tory analy sis in di cate that re gardless of whether the women stay in shel ters with their fami lies or by them selves, vari ous fam ily dy namics are as sociated with par ticular vul - nerability …
Homelessness And Public Shelter Provision In New York City, Dennis P. Culhane, Stephen Metraux, Susan M. Wachter
Homelessness And Public Shelter Provision In New York City, Dennis P. Culhane, Stephen Metraux, Susan M. Wachter
Dennis P. Culhane
New York City, faced since the 1970s with growing numbers of homeless individuals and families, and aggressive litigation on their behalf, has built the largest public shelter system in the United States as the centerpiece of its response to homelessness. The size of this system -- both its average daily census of 24,472 in 1995, and its annual expenditures of $500 million -- is far beyond the scope of any other city's efforts against homelessness. Yet despite the scale of these measures the shelter system has faced crises and controversies through three mayoral administrations and their varied approaches to reducing …