Reducing and Preventing Homelessness: A Review of the Evidence and Charting a Research Agenda / William N. Evans, David C. Philips, Krista J. Ruffini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, William N.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Philips, David C.

Ruffini, Krista J.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w26232.

NBER working paper series no. w26232

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Reducing and Preventing Homelessness

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2019.

Summary:

Homelessness may be both a cause of and one of the more extreme outcomes of poverty. Governments at all levels have a variety of tools to combat homelessness, and these strategies have changed dramatically over the past quarter century. In this paper, we catalog the policy responses, the existing literature on the effectiveness of these strategies, and the major gaps that need to be addressed in future research. We focus on studies from randomized controlled trial evaluations and the best quasi-experimental designs, and discuss outstanding questions that can be addressed with these same methods.

Notes:

Print version record

September 2019.