Homelessness Is a Housing Problem : How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns Paperback / softback
by Gregg Colburn, Clayton Page Aldern
Paperback / softback
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Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisis in America and reveals the structural conditions that underlie it. In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States.
In a departure from many analytical approaches, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area.
Using accessible statistical analysis, they test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city—including mental illness, drug use, poverty, weather, generosity of public assistance, and low-income mobility—and find that none explain the regional variation observed across the country.
Instead, housing market conditions, such as the cost and availability of rental housing, offer a far more convincing account.
With rigor and clarity, Homelessness Is a Housing Problem explores U.S. cities' diverse experiences with housing precarity and offers policy solutions for unique regional contexts.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:284 pages, 26 charts, 2 tables
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:15/03/2022
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- ISBN:9780520383784
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:284 pages, 26 charts, 2 tables
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:15/03/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520383784