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Homelessness is a Housing Problem
- Narrator
- Adam Verner
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 21 February 2023
- Run Time
- 6 hours 22 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Clayton Page Aldern, Gregg Colburn
- Narrator
- Adam Verner
- Duration
- 6 hours 22 minutes
- Release Date
- 21 February 2023
- ISBN
- 9798765071342
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Urban and municipal planning and policy, Sociology
Synopsis
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 United States cities' diverse experiences with housing precarity and offers policy solutions for unique regional contexts.
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