Hidden homelessness: An indicator-based approach for examining the geographies of recent immigrants at-risk of homelessness in Greater Vancouver
Hidden homelessness: An indicator-based approach for examining the geographies of recent immigrants at-risk of homelessness in Greater Vancouver
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10.1016/j.cities.2006.03.004
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发表时间：
2006-06-01
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6.7
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Hyndman, Jennifer
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作者：
Fiedler, Rob;Schumman, Nadine;Hyndman, Jennifer
虽然无家可归是大温哥华日益严重的问题，但移民尚未成为该地区无家可归者的明显组成部分。移民在被认为处于危险中的人口中所占比例过高，这表明移民无家可归的情况仍然是隐蔽的。使用基于人口普查的住房指标，我们研究了无家可归的风险移民的地理位置，以辨别“隐藏”无家可归可能发生的地方。调查结果表明：面临无家可归风险的新移民的空间集中在内郊区;在这些面临风险的地区，绝大多数移民是新来的;新移民不成比例地被排除在面临风险的估计数之外，因为他们在住房费用超过收入的家庭中所占比例过高（这些家庭被指标排除在外）。这些结论是通过在区域和次区域范围内的分析得出的，它揭示了广泛的趋势和模式，以及第二个小区域（邻里）规模的分析，更好地记录低成本租赁住房的高度本地化的地理，揭示社会差异的细粒度模式，在大温哥华确定可能存在“隐藏”无家可归的地区。(c)2006爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
While homelessness is a growing problem in Greater Vancouver, immigrants are not yet a visible part of the region's homeless. The over-representation of immigrants among the population considered at-risk suggests that immigrant homelessness remains hidden. Using census-based housing indicators, we examine the geographies of immigrants at-risk of homelessness to discern where 'hidden' homelessness might be occurring. Findings indicate that: spatial concentrations of recent immigrants at-risk of homelessness are found in inner suburban locations; in these at-risk areas the vast majority of immigrants are recent arrivals; and recent immigrants are disproportionately excluded from at-risk estimates because they are significantly over-represented among households that have shelter costs that exceed their incomes (which are excluded by the indicator). These conclusions are reached through analysis at the regional and sub-regional scale, which revealed broad trends and patterns, and a second small-area (neighbourhood) scale analysis, a means of better documenting the highly-localized geography of low-cost rental housing, revealing fine-grained patterns of social difference, that in Greater Vancouver identify areas where 'hidden' homelessness may be present. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.