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Homeless Persons' Residential Preferences And Needs: A Pilot Survey, Russell K. Schutt
Homeless Persons' Residential Preferences And Needs: A Pilot Survey, Russell K. Schutt
Russell K. Schutt
The 2003 Pilot Survey of Residential Preferences and Needs sampled individuals with psychiatric difficulties at three large generic shelters for adult individuals in Boston and one of four transitional shelters funded by the Metro Boston Region of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health. The survey measured: homeless persons’ residential preferences; the residential recommendations of shelter-based clinicians for these homeless persons; clinicians’ assessments of these persons’ living skills and safety. Respondents at the DMH shelter were somewhat more satisfied with their shelter and with the people who stayed there than were those at the generic shelters. The DMH shelter …
Homeless Shelter Use And Reincarceration Following Prison Release, Stephen Metraux, Dennis P. Culhane
Homeless Shelter Use And Reincarceration Following Prison Release, Stephen Metraux, Dennis P. Culhane
Dennis P. Culhane
This paper exmaines the incidence of and interrelationships between shelter use and reincarceration among a cohort of 48,424 persons who were released from New York State prisons to New York City in 1995-1998. Results show that, within two years of release, 11.4% of the study group was again imprisoned. Using survival analysis methods, time since prison release and history of residential instability were the most salient risk factors related to shelter use, and shelter use increased the risk of subsequent reincarcerations.