Homelessness prevention efforts face an overarching challenge: how to target limited resources far enough downstream capture those at greatest risk of homelessness, but upstream stabilize households before they experience a cascade negative outcomes. How did the COVID-19 emergency rental assistance programs launched in hundreds localities across United States respond this challenge? This paper ...

In this study, the notions of homelessness and unhomeliness are studied in 2 novels by Naipaul: Half a Life (2001) and Magic Seeds (2004). Naipaul has been viewed by many postcolonial critics as an imperially complicit writer, for his controversial views of places and societies, particularly his disdain for non-Western societies. This study examines whether the imperatives of the postcolonial c...

People occupying stigmatized social positions often withdraw from sources of support, becoming stressed, depressed, and isolated. Homelessness is globally prevalent stigmatized. Despite the overwhelming evidence that homelessness associated with experiences isolation poor mental health, there a sparse understanding how stigma relationships interact health in this context. This mixed-method stud...

Although the links between health and environment are well known, interventions that target these associations in order to improve health are rare. Health and social service agencies often function independently of one another, maintaining separate, unlinked databases. For example, relationships among homelessness, AIDS, and tuberculosis have been noted, but services have not focused on the int...

Homeless people have been found to exhibit high levels of personal disability (mental illness, substance abuse), extreme degrees of social estrangement, and deep poverty. Each of these conditions poses unique housing problems, which are discussed here. In the 1980s, the number of poor people has increased and the supply of low-income housing has dwindled; these trends provide the background aga...

This overview of parenting and homelessness includes the characteristics and needs of families who are homeless, with a focus on the unique challenges faced by mothers, fathers, and children. In addition, the authors discuss how homeless families are narrowly defined based on the family members who present at shelters and other service programs. In order to fully support parents and their child...