The 2013 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (Ahar) To Congress, Part 2, Claudia D. Solari, Alvaro Cortes, Meghan Henry, Natalie Matthews, Sean Morris, Jill Khadduri, Dennis P. Culhane
Sep 2014
The 2013 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (Ahar) To Congress, Part 2, Claudia D. Solari, Alvaro Cortes, Meghan Henry, Natalie Matthews, Sean Morris, Jill Khadduri, Dennis P. Culhane
Dennis P. Culhane
This report is the second part of a two-part series. The first part is called The 2013 Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness: Part 1 of the 2013 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress and was published in November 2013. The Part 1 report provides estimates of homelessness based on the Point-in-Time (PIT) count data gathered by communities throughout the country on a single night in January. The estimates are provided at the national-, state-, and CoC-levels. New to the 2013 AHAR is information on unaccompanied homeless children and youth and chronically homeless people in families.
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The 2014 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (Ahar) To Congress: Part 1 Point In Time Counts, Mehan Henry, Alvaro Cortes, Azim Shivji, Katherine Buck, Jill Khadduri, Dennis P. Culhane
Sep 2014
The 2014 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (Ahar) To Congress: Part 1 Point In Time Counts, Mehan Henry, Alvaro Cortes, Azim Shivji, Katherine Buck, Jill Khadduri, Dennis P. Culhane
Dennis P. Culhane
In January 2014, 578,424 people were homeless on a given night. Most (69 percent) were staying in residential programs for homeless people, and the rest (31 percent) were found in unsheltered locations.
Nearly one-quarter of all homeless people were children under the age of 18 (23 percent or 135,701). Ten percent (or 58,601) were between the ages of 18 and 24, and 66 percent (or 384,122) were 25 years or older.
Homelessness declined by 2 percent (or 13,344 people) between 2013 and 2014 and by 11 percent (or 72,718) since 2007.
Development And Validation Of An Instrument To Assess Imminent Risk Of Homelessness Among Veterans, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Jamison Fargo, Vincent Kane, Dennis P. Culhane
Aug 2014
Development And Validation Of An Instrument To Assess Imminent Risk Of Homelessness Among Veterans, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Jamison Fargo, Vincent Kane, Dennis P. Culhane
Dennis P. Culhane
Objectives. Veterans are overrepresented within the homeless population compared with their non-veteran counterparts, particularly when controlling for poverty. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) aims to prevent new episodes of homelessness by targeting households at greatest risk; however, there are no instruments that systematically assess veterans’ risk of homelessness. We developed and tested a brief screening instrument to identify imminent risk of homelessness among veterans accessing VA health care.
Methods. The study team developed initial assessment items, conducted cognitiveinterviews with veterans experiencing homelessness, refined pilot items based on veterans’ and experts’ feedback and results of psychometric analyses, and assigned …
The Relationship Between Community Investment In Permanent Supportive Housing And Chronic Homelessness, Thomas Byrne, Jamison Fargo, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Ellen Munley, Dennis P. Culhane
May 2014
The Relationship Between Community Investment In Permanent Supportive Housing And Chronic Homelessness, Thomas Byrne, Jamison Fargo, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Ellen Munley, Dennis P. Culhane
Dennis P. Culhane
In recent years, permanent supportive housing PSH has emerged as the preferred intervention for addressing chronic homelessness in the United States. However, almost all prior studies examining the effectiveness of PSH have been conducted at the individual level, with only minimal attempts to empirically test the relationship between PSH and chronic homelessness at the community level. This study uses longitudinal data collected by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development HUD and several other sources to model the relationship between measures of community investment in PSH and rates of chronic homelessness. The results show modest negative associations between increased …
Impact And Performance Of The Supportive Services For Veteran Families (Ssvf) Program: Results From The Fy 2013 Program Year, Thomas Byrne, John Kuhn, Dennis P. Culhane, Susan Kane, Vincent Kane
Apr 2014
Impact And Performance Of The Supportive Services For Veteran Families (Ssvf) Program: Results From The Fy 2013 Program Year, Thomas Byrne, John Kuhn, Dennis P. Culhane, Susan Kane, Vincent Kane
Dennis P. Culhane
The Supportive Services for Veteran Families (SSVF) program represents a crucial component of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) plan to prevent and end homelessness among Veterans. Operationalized in Federal Fiscal Year (FY) 2012, SSVF is the first and only VA program that provides services to Veterans and their families. SSVF is a community-based, competitive grant program that rapidly re-houses homeless Veteran families and prevents homelessness for those at imminent risk due to a housing crisis. The program focuses on achieving housing stability through a short-term, customized intervention using a time limited case management approach. Services include financial assistance …
Estimating Cost Savings Associated With Hud-Vash Placement, Thomas Byrne, Christopher B. Roberts, Dennis P. Culhane, Vincent Kane
Mar 2014
Estimating Cost Savings Associated With Hud-Vash Placement, Thomas Byrne, Christopher B. Roberts, Dennis P. Culhane, Vincent Kane
Dennis P. Culhane
Existing research suggests that Veterans experiencing homelessness make disproportionate and costly use of acute health, mental health and substance abuse treatment services, but that placement in programs like the US Department of Housing and Urban Development-VA Supportive Housing Program (HUD-VASH) can result in substantial reductions in the utilization of these services and associated costs. Several studies have demonstrated that, for certain high need individuals and Veterans, cost savings resulting from the reduction in these acute care services subsequent to placement in permanent supportive housing (PSH) can substantially or completely offset the cost of providing PSH and may even result in …
Public Assistance Receipt Among Older Youth Exiting Foster Care, Thomas Byrne, Stephen Metraux, Minseop Kim, Dennis P. Culhane, Manuel Moreno, Halil Toros, Max Stevens
Dec 2013
Public Assistance Receipt Among Older Youth Exiting Foster Care, Thomas Byrne, Stephen Metraux, Minseop Kim, Dennis P. Culhane, Manuel Moreno, Halil Toros, Max Stevens
Dennis P. Culhane
There is increasing evidence that youth aging out of the foster care system encounter substantial challenges in their transition to adulthood. Receipt of public assistance following discharge from care is one important indicator of the extent to which these youth experience economic difficulties, but prior research on the topic has a number of key limitations. Building on existing research, this study examines public assistance receipt following exit from care among a cohort of 7492 youth who were discharged from an out of home placement in Los Angeles County between 2002 and 2004 and who were aged 16 or …
Validation Of Self-Reported Veteran Status Among Two Sheltered Homeless Populations, Stephen Metraux, Magdi Stino, Dennis P. Culhane
Dec 2013
Validation Of Self-Reported Veteran Status Among Two Sheltered Homeless Populations, Stephen Metraux, Magdi Stino, Dennis P. Culhane
Dennis P. Culhane
Objectives. We assessed the accuracy of self-reported veteran status among sheltered homeless adults to assess the reliability of using self-report to determine the number of veterans in homeless populations and examine whether there are demographic correlates to inaccurate reporting of veteran status.
Methods. Records on 5,860 sheltered adults from Columbus, Ohio, and 16,346 sheltered adults from New York City (NYC) were matched with U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) records. We analyzed the agreement between veteran self-reporting and official records using descriptive measures, diagnostic tests, and logistic regression.
Results. The degree of concordance was moderate. Using VA …
