Planning: CRISES: Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Housing and Homelessness

住房和无家可归危机是由一系列复杂的因素造成的，从缺乏住房生产和分区政策到劳动力市场和刑事司法系统中的结构性种族主义。无家可归对个人和家庭的影响是深远的，这些危机使公共服务和系统不堪重负。关于住房和无家可归问题的研究往往是孤立的，住房和无家可归问题组织之间的资金和方案交付分散，破坏了有效的解决方案。该规划项目的重点是发展一个跨学科研究中心，将住房和无家可归问题研究社区聚集在一起。该项目考虑了这些相互交织的危机的社会、卫生、经济和政策层面，并强调了减少无家可归现象和改善个人福祉所需的结构改革。它还旨在通过用数据和可获得的研究取代误解，为关于住房和无家可归问题的公共辩论提供信息。 关于住房和无家可归问题的研究往往没有采用跨学科的研究方法，包括经济学、心理学、人类学、地理学、社会学和其他社会科学学科。该项目计划进行跨学科研究，通过整合住房和无家可归问题研究的观点，采用动态而非静态的无家可归问题框架，并结合不同人口和风险群体的经历，采用结构性和个人性方法，来增进知识。计划中的活动将有助于为住房和无家可归危机的政策解决方案提供信息，例如确定战略性跨学科研究议程，改善住房和无家可归问题社会科学研究的数据生态系统，以及支持社区参与性研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The housing and homelessness crises are caused by a complex web of factors ranging from lack of housing production and zoning policies to structural racism in labor markets and criminal justice systems. The consequences of homelessness for individuals and families are profound, and these crises strain public services and systems. Research on housing and homelessness is often siloed, and fragmentation in funding and program delivery across housing and homelessness organizations undermines effective solutions. This planning project focuses on the development of an interdisciplinary research Center that brings housing and homelessness research communities together. The project considers the social, health, economic, and policy dimensions of these intersecting crises, and emphasizes the structural reforms that are needed to reduce homelessness and improve the well-being of individuals. It also aims to inform the public debate on housing and homelessness by replacing misconceptions with data and accessible research. Research on housing and homelessness is often not informed by interdisciplinary research approaches spanning economics, psychology, anthropology, geography, sociology, and other social science disciplines. The project plans for interdisciplinary research to advance knowledge by integrating the perspectives of housing and homelessness research, employing a dynamic rather than static framework of homelessness, and integrating structural and individual approaches to the experiences of different demographic and risk groups. Planned activities will help inform policy solutions to the housing and homelessness crises, such as identifying a strategic interdisciplinary research agenda, improving the data ecosystem for social science research on housing and homelessness, and supporting community participatory research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.