Doctoral Dissertation Research: Homeless service systems and the homeless

无家可归者服务系统和无家可归者克里斯托弗·赫林美国城市的无家可归者管理依赖于街道、收容所和国家支持的住房计划。社会科学家并没有清楚地了解这些机构如何在无家可归者管理的内部经济中相互关联，以及这些关系如何塑造无家可归者的生存。此外，美国的每个城市都没有足够的庇护所床位和无家可归者住房。因此，在住房稀缺的背景下，某些个人和群体如何、为什么以及何时最终进入一个机构而不是另一个机构，这是一个重要的经验之谜。而不仅仅是将无家可归者视为贫困的结果，本文试图解释无家可归者管理机构在对穷人进行分类和分层方面所发挥的作用，并可能通过对无家可归者的政策加深不稳定住房的贫困。本论文的研究将整合社会学、社会福利和公共卫生等多个领域的研究，帮助理解政策如何影响边缘化群体。为了回答无家可归者服务系统中谁得到什么以及何时得到什么的实证难题，本论文将对弗朗西斯科市的街道、收容所和永久性支持性住房计划进行比较研究;一个城市因其提供多种服务的收容所和“住房第一”的做法而被视为全国典范。该研究将在三种常见的解释机构进入，限制，和偏好：（a）机构因素（B）酌情因素和（c）个人因素，影响他们的进入，退出，限制，和街头，收容所和无家可归者之间的流通。 论文还将评估居住在一个或另一个机构如何影响健康，工作，福利，刑事定罪和社会关系。这些过程将通过“多方面的民族志”进行研究，一方面与街头，庇护所和永久性支持性住房的社会工作者一起工作，并与无家可归的人一起通过这些相同的空间导航。 这项研究有助于无家可归者的社会学，社会福利，贫困社会学，并在其对无家可归者和住房政策的潜在贡献中具有强大的更广泛的影响。

Homeless Service Systems and the HomelessChristopher HerringHomeless management in the US city relies on the street, shelter, and state supported housing programs. Social scientists do not have a clear understanding of how these institutions relate to one another within an internal economy of homeless management and how these relationships shape the survival of the houseless. Further, every city in the United has an insufficient supply of shelter beds and homeless housing units. There is, then, an important empirical puzzle as to how, why, and when, in this context of housing scarcity, certain individuals and groups end up in one institution rather than another. Rather than just view homelessness as an outcome of poverty, this dissertation seeks to explain the role institutions of homeless management play in sorting and stratifying the poor and possibly deepening the poverty of the precariously housed through policy toward the homeless. This dissertation research will integrate several fields of study in sociology, social welfare and public health and help understand the ways in which policy affects marginalized groups.To answer the empirical puzzle of who gets what and when within a homeless services system, the dissertation will provide a comparative study of the streets, shelters, and permanent supportive housing programs in the city of San Francisco; a city considered a national model for its multi-service shelters and "housing first" approach. The study will adjudicate among three common explanations of institutional entry, restriction, and preference: (a) institutional factors (b) discretionary factors and (c) individual factors that affect their entry, exit, restriction, and circulation between street, shelter, and homeless housing. The dissertation will also assess how residing within one institution or another affects health, work, welfare, criminalization, and social ties. These processes will be studied through a "multi-sided ethnography," working alongside social workers on the streets, shelters, and permanent supportive housing on the one hand, and navigating alongside homeless people through these same spaces. This research contributes to the sociology of the homeless, social welfare, sociology of poverty and has strong broader impacts in its potential contribution to homeless and housing policy.