Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers Causes of Intercity Variation in Homelessness
Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Papers Causes of Intercity Variation in Homelessness
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贫困研究所讨论论文城市间无家可归者差异的原因
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M. Honig;R. Filer;Steve Bartolomei;Howard Chernick;Steven Craig;Martha Hill;Charles Manski;Kathryn Nelson;Cordelia
Reimers提供了有用的意见，Franco Pignataro提供了非常细致的编程帮助。利用住房和城市发展部对无家可归人口的估计，调查人员提出了简化形式的调查结果，作为全面和系统地衡量无家可归的潜在原因的第一次尝试。整个工作假设是，无家可归是由可用住房成本和家庭收入之间的不平衡造成的。本文还分析了与无家可归相关的两种情况——拥挤的住房和加倍的住房。研究人员得出结论，即使是一组很小的、直观上吸引人的因素，也可以解释美国各城市无家可归现象的变化，而且无家可归现象有很多根源：住房市场、劳动力市场，以及有关精神病患者制度化和低收入人群治疗的公共政策。
Reimers for helpful comments, and Franco Pignataro for his exceptionally meticulous programming assistance. Abstract Using the Department of Housing and Urban Development's estimates of the homeless population, the investigators present reduced-form findings as a first attempt to measure comprehensively and systematically the underlying causes of homelessness. The working assumption throughout is that homelessness results from an imbalance between the cost of available housing and a household's income. Two conditions related to homelessness-crowded and doubled-up housing-are also analyzed. The investigators conclude that even a small, intuitively appealing set of factors can explain variations in homelessness across American cities and that homelessness has many roots: in housing markets, labor markets, and public policies regarding the institutionalization of the mentally ill and the treatment of the low-income population.