Homelessness among At-Risk Families with Children in Twenty American Cities
Homelessness among At-Risk Families with Children in Twenty American Cities
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DOI：
10.1086/592335
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发表时间：
2008-09-01
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2
通讯作者：
Reingold, David A.
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作者：
Fertig, Angela R.;Reingold, David A.
本文使用脆弱家庭和儿童福祉研究的数据来探讨有儿童的家庭无家可归的特征和决定因素。这些独特的数据可以检查大量可能影响无家可归的个人、家庭和城市层面的风险因素。结果表明，无家可归与非正式和机构社会支持密切相关。它与当地住房和劳动力市场状况只有适度的相关性。这些结果表明，减少家庭无家可归的最大潜力在于干预措施，例如低收入住房援助，旨在加强低收入母亲的非正式和机构社会支持。旨在改变当地住房和劳动力市场状况的政策不太可能大幅降低这一紧迫社会问题的风险。
This article uses data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study to explore the characteristics and determinants of homelessness among families with children. These unique data permit the examination of a large set of individual-, household-, and city-level risk factors that may influence homelessness. Results suggest that homelessness is strongly linked to informal and institutional social support. It is only modestly associated with local housing and labor market conditions. These results suggest that the greatest potential for reducing family homelessness lies in interventions, such as low-income housing assistance, that are designed to strengthen informal and institutional social support among low-income mothers. Policies designed to alter local housing and labor market conditions are unlikely to reduce substantially the risk of this pressing social problem.