PPPA 6085 Homelessness and Housing

Fall 2020 Sociology 6252_80/PPPA 6085_80                       Professor Hilary Silver

Wednesdays 6:10-8 pm                                                         Office hours: Wed 4-6 pm

Synchronmous Remote                                                          [email protected]

 

HOMELESSNESS and HOUSING

Course Description

This course aims to inform students about the causes, history, and experiences of homelessness and about existing programs and affordable housing policies to address the problem.  It also provides students with the opportunity to conduct original research and write an extended term paper on topics related to these themes. 

Course Learning Goals

Learn why we describe those without shelter as “homeless”

Learn how people experience homelessness, what it feels like

Learn the history of, and trends in homelessness in the US, and measures of it

Learn how to count people experiencing homelessness

Learn why people live on the streets even in affluent societies with social services

Assess conflicting explanations for the rise in homelessness

Assess the impact of COVID-19 on homelessness

Learn about homelessness in your city and Washington, DC

Examine ways in which societies criminalize the homeless, and legal remedies

Evaluate various approaches to ending homelessness, including Housing First 

Learn about the main low-income housing programs 

Compare homelessness in the US to other countries

Write critical responses to readings on these subjects

Conduct original research, analyze data, and write a long paper that can serve as a writing sample for employers or doctoral programs

Prerequisites: The seminar is open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students in the social sciences from all schools at George Washington University who can demonstrate research skills.  

 

Assignments and Grading:

Preparation of weekly readings prior to class and participation in discussions (instructor reserves the right to quiz).  

 

Response to a film on homelessness: 10% of grade. DUE September 9

 

A 2-page report on a particular subgroup of the homeless: vets, youth, elderly, families, LGBT, ex-offenders, etc. 20% of grade DUE September 23

 

A 3-5 page report on people experiencing homelessness in one Continuum of Care of your choice and how the CoC is housing them: 30% of grade. DUE October 21

Resources include: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/coc-areashttps://www.hudexchange.info/programs/coc/;https://www.hudexchange.info… 

Especially see the annual PIT and HIC counts https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/3031/pit-and-hic-data-since-2007/

The National Alliance to End Homelessness also computes rates. https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statis…

Rates of homelessness compare point-in-time counts to state, county, and city population data from the Census Bureau’s Population Estimates Program. Most CoC boundaries align with one or multiple counties, and about a dozen align with cities that are entirely within one county. However, four CoCs align with city boundaries spanning multiple counties (Atlanta, GA; Amarillo, TX; Kansas City, MO; and Oklahoma City, OK) and estimates rely on prior year trends.

CoC Racial Analysis Tool lets you calculate the extent to which local homelessness exceeds the poverty rate and over-represents particular racial groups at https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/5787/coc-analysis-tool-race-and-e…

The U.S. Conference of Mayors and the National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH) have an annual report on homelessness and hunger in 38 cities: The U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Report on Hunger and Homelessness, A Status Report on Homelessness and Hunger in America’s Cities, December 2017 is the https://endhomelessness.org/resource/the-united-states-conference-of-ma…

Put homelessness in context: find the American Community Survey/ Census data for the county or counties of the CoC here:

https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2010s-counti…

Term paper based on original research: 40% of grade.  

The paper, not to exceed 20 double-spaced pages (excluding tables and references), shall be on a topic related to homelessness or housing the homeless.  It should draw upon course themes and readings, but significantly transcend them with original research, preferably in Washington, DC or with a local NGO.  Students should consult the professor on their topic early on, and indicate if the paper will contribute to a qualifying exam or thesis.  Students will present a summary of their paper online on December 2 or 9.  Final draft is DUE December 16 at 11:59 pm!  No “Incompletes” shall be awarded, so please plan ahead and manage your time accordingly.  

 

Original research may include documentary analysis of primary and secondary materials, quantitative statistical analysis of datasets, interviews, analysis of information systematically collected during a field placement, or a study collecting new data as requested by local agencies.  Participant observation is discouraged due to time constraints.

The paper should consist of several sections: (1) state the research question and define the problem under study, (2) review the relevant literature and course readings on the problem, (3) describe research methods used and explain why they are appropriate, (4) present the findings, and (5) conclude with the theoretical and policy implications of the study.  

Students will consult with the instructor and prepare one-page paper proposals declaring the topic of study (e.g. the main question under investigation) and the research methods to be employed.  DUE: October 7

A progress report, in the form of a literature review, a short narrative describing methods and work in progress, or another section of the paper already written.  DUE:  November 4

Students will briefly summarize and present their research findings and receive comments for revision during the last weeks of the seminar; 12/2 or 12/9.

The final paper itself is DUE December 16, the Wednesday of exam period.  

 

Books and Materials

Most assigned readings are available on Blackboard.  URLs to online sources are provided.  Any “Recommended” readings on the syllabus are for background and greater depth, and not required.

 

Useful Internet Sites

Interagency Council on Homelessness https://www.usich.gov/

The National Coalition for the Homeless (fact sheets) http://www.nationalhomeless.org  

National Low Income Housing Coalition http://www.nlihc.org  

National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty www.nlchp.org/

Housing Policy Debate http://www.fanniemaefoundation.org/programs/journals.shtml

Interagency Council on Homelessness http://www.ich.gov/

HUD: http://www.huduser.org/datasets/

Cityscape https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/cityscape.html

National Housing Market and Affordability  http://www.jchs.harvard.edu/

Shelterforce http://www.shelterforce.org/

Eviction Lab (https://evictionlab.org/get-the-data/)

Urban Institute [email protected]

 

DEADLINE SUMMARY

9/9       Discussion page post on film

9/23     Subgroup paper

10/7     Term paper proposals

11/4     Term paper progress report

10/21   Continuum of Care paper

12/2 and 12/9 Paper presentations

12/16   Term papers due

 

COURSE POLICIES

Expected Time Commitment: 3-credit Graduate Seminar

In keeping with the course requirement of 112.5 hours over the semester, students will spend 2 hours per week in class or viewing films (100 minutes total) over the 15 weeks of the semester, for a total of 25-30 instructional hours. Out of class work – required readings, research, and writing -- will total, on average, 7 hours (350 minutes) a week, or 87-105 hours total in preparation time.  

 

Format: The course consists of short lectures and synchronous discussions of assigned readings so that all students share and actively discuss the same basic information.  In addition, the course includes guest lectures from DC experts and films.  In the early weeks of the semester, preparation of required readings or films prior to the seminar meetings is expected to take up approximately 6 hours per week (reading at 24 pages/hour) and preparation of responses make require another 1 hour.  Students will search for a research topic and have individual consultations with the instructor which may take 2-3 hours a week.  As the semester progresses, out of class time devoted to reading and writing for seminar meetings will decline to 3 hours a week, while independent reading and research for one’s term paper will increase to 7 hours a week.  In the last weeks of the semester, course time outside of class may exceed 10 hours a week, as students will be fully engaged in their research projects, analyzing findings, writing up the term paper, and preparing an in-class presentation.  After Thanksgiving, students will present their preliminary findings and revise their papers for submission.

Online Office Hours: I will be available in Blackboard Collaborate for individual consultations and group discussions on Wednesdays 4-6 pm EDT.  Please email me ahead of time if you want a private consultation on Webex or Blackboard.

Student Discussions:  Students should feel free to initiate their own chat rooms or discussion threads.  The instructor can facilitate this if requested.

Etiquette and “Web-iquette”

Higher education works best when it becomes a vigorous and lively marketplace of ideas in which all points of view are heard.  Free expression in the classroom is an integral part of this process.  At the same time, higher education works best when all of us approach the enterprise with empathy and respect for others, irrespective of their ideology, political views, or identity. We value civility because that is the kind of community we want, and we care for it because civility permits intellectual exploration and growth.

Class discussions will be conducted in a spirit of mutual respect and collective inquiry.  Own your ideas; do not post anonymously.  Diverse opinions are welcomed.  Indeed, reasoned disagreement between arguments supported with evidence can facilitate learning.  In case you need guidance about how to disagree respectfully, try to challenge or criticize the idea, not the person.  Read/listen carefully to what others are saying.  Be courteous: do not interrupt or chat/engage in private conversations or play with your devices while others are speaking.  Do not demean, devalue, or “put down” peoplefor their experiences, lack of experience, or difference in interpretations.  Allow everyone the chance to talk.  If you have already spoken a lot, try to hold back a bit; if you are hesitant to speak, look for opportunities to contribute to the discussion.  Finally, if you find something said to be offensive, speak up.  Anti-racism resources are posted on the Blackboard site if you wish some guidance.

 

UNIVERSITY POLICIES

 

University policy on observance of religious holidays

In accordance with University policy, students should notify faculty during the first week of the semester of their intentionto be absent from class on their day(s) of religious observance. For details and policy, see : provost.gwu.edu/policies-procedures-and-guidelines

 

Academic Integrity Code

Academic Integrity is an integral part of the educational process, and GW takes these matters very seriously. Violations of academic integrity occur when students fail to cite research sources properly, engage in unauthorized collaboration, falsify data, and in other ways outlined in the Code of Academic Integrity. Students accused of academic integrity violations should contact the Office of Academic Integrity to learn more about their rights and options in the process. Outcomes can range from failure of assignment to expulsion from the University, including a transcript notation. The Office of Academic Integrity maintains a permanent record of the violation. More information is available from the Office of Academic Integrity at studentconduct.gwu.edu/academic-integrity. The University’s “Guide of Academic Integrity in Online Learning Environments” is available at studentconduct.gwu.edu/guide-academic-integrity-online-learning-environments. Contact information: [email protected] or 202-994-6757.

 

Disability Support Services (DSS) 202-994-8250

Any student who may need an accommodation based on the potential impact of a disability should contact DisabilitySupport Services to establish eligibility and to coordinate reasonable accommodations. disabilitysupport.gwu.edu

 

Counseling and Psychological Services 202-994-5300

GW’s Colonial Health Center offers counseling and psychological services, supporting mental health and personal development by collaborating directly with students to overcome challenges and difficulties that may interfere with academic, emotional, and personal success. healthcenter.gwu.edu/counseling-and-psychological-services

Safety and security
•       In an emergency: call GWPD 202-994-6111 or 911
•       For situation-specific actions: review the Emergency Response Handbook at safety.gwu.edu/emergency-response-handbook
•       In an active violence situation: Get Out, Hide Out or Take Out. See go.gwu.edu/shooterprep
•       Stay informed: safety.gwu.edu/stay-informed

Support for students outside the classroom

 

Virtual academic support 

A full range of academic support is offered virtually in fall 2020. See updates at coronavirus.gwu.edu/top-faqs

 

Academic Commons

Academic Commons provides tutoring, course review sessions, and other academic support resources to students in many courses in an online format. See academiccommons.gwu.edu/tutoring  Students can schedule virtual one-on-one appointments or attend virtual drop-in sessions, or access other academic support resources at academiccommons.gwu.edu. Coaching, offered through the Office of Student Success, is available in a virtual format. See studentsuccess.gwu.edu/academic-program-support  Writing and research consultations are available online. See academiccommons.gwu.edu/writing-research-help. 

 

Academic Commons offers several short videos addressing different virtual learning strategies for the unique circumstances of the fall 2020 semester. See academiccommons.gwu.edu/study-skills. They also offer a variety of live virtual workshops to equip students with the tools they need to succeed in a virtual environment. See tinyurl.com/gw-virtual-learning

 

Writing Center

GW’s Writing Center cultivates confident writers in the University community by facilitating collaborative, critical, and inclusive conversations at all stages of the writing process. Working alongside peer mentors, writers develop strategies to write independently in academic and public settings. Appointments can be booked online. See gwu.mywconline.  Thisuseful resource can help with all the mechanics and style of the writing process.  It is essential to avoid plagiarism, especially in a course like this calling for research. You may not attribute someone else’s work or ideas as your own (even if you worked on it together as a group) or use someone’s ideas without appropriate citations. Your papers must have full documentation – both footnotes or endnotes or in-text (author year page) and bibliography -- when an author’s ideas are presented in your writing, even if you paraphrase or do not quote the text word-for-word.  If you have any questions, please ask.  

 

Remote learning instructions 

This course will meet weekly on line via Blackboard Collaborate Ultra.  Minimum technology requirements for participation in the course are therefore a stable internet connection, webcam, and microphone, and knowledge of Blackboard, Blackboard Collaborate, and Webex.  Students will be doing a lot of online research via library.gwu.edu and the internet.  Blackboard help is available from the course website and through the GWIT Support Center.  For technical support, student services, obtaining a GWorld card, and state contact information): online.gwu.edu/student-support

 

Classes will be audio/video recorded for students who may be abroad or ill, so students who do not wish to be recorded should inform the instructor immediately to discuss alternative arrangements such as the option for the student to not identify themselves or editing them out.  The Blackboard site will have all that students should need to get started, including all the readings and films, Discussion Boards, and Assignments.  The guest speakers will do their best to speak within the Blackboard session.  Webex is available as a backup.  

 

Students are prohibited from recording/distributing any Class Activity without permission from the instructor, except as necessary as part of approved accommodations for students with disabilities. Any approved recordings may only be used for the student’s own private use.

 

PART ONE: Homelessness

 

September 2 Introduction: Home and Homelessness

Questions for class discussion:  Why use the label “home-lessness’? What is home? 

Why is homeownership preferred to renting?

 

Hilary Silver. 2020. The Home and Homelessness. Arts of the Working Class (Special Issue no. 5): pp. 24-25.

 

View one of the following film and comment on Discussion board by September 9:

Hilary Silver, Direction Home (58 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS8hoRwk6Kw

 

Ken Burns, East Lake Meadows (2018). History of Atlanta Public Housing, featuring Lawrence Vale, Ed Goetz, Mary Pattillo, Mario Small, Richard Rothstein.  https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/east-lake-meadows/

 

Oren Moverman, Time Out of Mind (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L09lqYYw2yc

 

Marc Singer, Dark Days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTNeG9m_3Uw

 

Elizabeth Lo, Hotel 22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9BEbWu8Ygc

 

When I Came Home (70 minutes) on homeless veterans. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufJ_-ktwxjM

 

On the Streets Los Angeles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUsJcPc8g0A

 

September 9 History and Ethnography of Homelessness

Kim Hopper. 2002. Reckoning with Homelessness, Cornell University Press, chs. 2 From Almshouse to Shelter.

Kenneth Kusmer, Down & Out, On the Road: The homeless in American history. Oxford University Press, 2001, ch. 1.

Teresa Gowan, 2010. Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco. University of Minnesota Press. Pp. xii-xiv Introduction: Sin, Sickness and the System

 

September 16 Counting and Characterizing People Experiencing Homelessness

Guest Lecture: Dr Claudia Solari, Associate/Scientist, Urban Institute

How and Why do we count the homeless?  Who is more likely to experience homelessness?

HUD and Abt Associates. 2020. The Annual Homeless Assessment [AHAR] Report to Congress: Part 1 Point-in-Time Estimates of Homelessness. Washington: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and Development, January.   Read pp. 1-20 and then choose one other population you are most interested in.

 

Marybeth Shinn and Jill Khadduri. 2020. In the Midst of Plenty: Homelessness and What To Do About It.  Wiley-Blackwell, chs. 1-2.

 

Daniel Treglia, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, and Dennis Culhane. 2018. Homelessness, ch. 11 pp. 183-95 in Katrin Anacker, et al. eds. Introduction to Housing, 2nd ed. University of Georgia Press.

 

The LSA: HUD has  just replaced the Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) data submission process for Continuums of Care (CoCs) with the Longitudinal Systems Analysis (LSA) report.  Expected soon.  See Resources for the 2018 Longitudinal Systems Analysis Report (Formerly AHAR) Find a link to the data dictionary here: https://www.hudexchange.info/resource/5726/lsa-report-specifications-an… 

and read Appendix B in the other document on the LSA page for the information in the LSA report: https://files.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/LSA-Programming-Spec…

 

David Snow and Leon Anderson, “Street People.” Contexts 2, 1 (Winter 2003): 12-17.

http://www.contextsmagazine.org/content_vol2-1.php

 

Jeffrey Olivet et al. 2018. SPARC Supporting Partnerships for Anti-Racist Communities. Phase 1 Study Findings, executive summary.

 

September 23 Criminalization of Homelessness: Squatting, Encampments, Fair Chance Ordinances  DUE subgroup paper

 

National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. 2020. Housing, Not Handcuffs 2019. Washington.

 

Jeremy Waldron. 1991. Homelessness and the Issue of Freedom. UCLA Law Review 39: 295-324.

 

David J. Amaral. 2020.Who Banishes? City Power and Anti-homeless Policy in San Francisco. Urban Affairs Review 1-34.

 

Claire W. Herbert, Jeffrey D. Morenoff, and David J. Harding. 2015. Homelessness and Housing Insecurity Among Former Prisoners. RSF: The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences 1, 2: 44-79 OR 

David Harding, Jeffrey Morenoff, and Claire Herbert. 2013.  Home Is Hard to Find: Neighborhoods, Institutions, and the Residential Trajectories of Returning Prisoners. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 647, 1: 214-236.

 

Claire W. Herbert. 2018. Squatting for Survival: Precarious Housing in a Declining U.S. City. Housing Policy Debate 28,5: 797-813. DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2018.1461120

 

 

Chris Herring. 2019. Complaint-Oriented Policing: Regulating Homelessness in Public Space. American Sociological Review 84, 5: 769-800. 

 

Chris Herring. 2014. The New Logics of Homeless Seclusion: A Comparative Study of Large-Scale Homeless Encampments in the Western US. City & Community 13(4): 285-309 OR

Patrick Geiger and Aaron Howe. 2019. D.C.’s homeless encampment ‘cleanups’ are only making things worse. Washington Post (April 19). https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/local-opinions/dcs-homeless-enc…

OR

Sarah Esther Lageson. 2020. How criminal background checks lead to discrimination against millions of Americans. Washington Post (July 10). OR Digital Punishment: Privacy, Stigma, and the Harms of Data-Driven Criminal Justice.https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/10/personal-data-indust…

 

September 30 Housing Insecurity, Sweeps, Evictions, and Homelessness: 

COVID-19 moratoriums

Guest Lecture: Prof. Barrett Lee, Penn State on “Trajectories and Policies”

 

View: Coronavirus IX: Evictions: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R652nwUcJRA

 

Cherie Steuve, Martin Seay, and Andrew Carswell. 2018. Renting. Ch. 9 in Katrin Anacker, et al. eds. Introduction to Housing, 2nd ed. University of Georgia Press.

 

Chris Glynn and Melissa Allison. 2017 Rising Rents Mean Larger Homeless Population.  https://www.zillow.com/research/rents-larger-homeless-population-16124/

 

Matthew Desmond. 2016. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the Inner City. New York: Crown, Introduction, Epilogue. 

 

Esther Sullivan. 2018. Manufactured Insecurity: Mobile Home Parks and Americans' Tenuous Right to Place. University of California Press. Pp. 14-30.

 

Jacob William Faber. 2019. On the Street During the Great Recession: Exploring the Relationship Between Foreclosures and Homelessness, Housing Policy Debate 29, 4: 588-606. DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2018.1554595

 

PART TWO: Housing

 

October 7 Housing Affordability and Rent Control

 

Council of Economic Advisers. 2019.  The State of Homelessness in America. September. Executive Summary. 

 

Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. 2019. State of the Nation’s Housing 2019.  Cambridge, MA: executive summary pp. 1-6, 33-35. (2020 will be released in November 2020)

 

National Low-Income Income Housing Coalition. 2020. Out of Reach 2020.  Pp. 1-20.

 

National Low-Income Income Housing Coalition, Andrew Aurand et al. 2020. State and Local Rental Assistance Programs: Finding Solutions for a Growing Crisis. Washington: National Low-Income Income Housing Coalition, July.

 

Amee Chew and Treuhaft. 2019.  Our Homes, Our Future: How Rent Control can Build Stable, Healthy Communities. PolicyLink, pp. 7-33. 

 

October 14 Shelters, Housing First and Rapid Rehousing

Housing First vs. Shelters:  What is wrong with emergency shelters?  

RESOURCE: Vulnerability Index questionnaire

 

Marybeth Shinn and Jill Khadduri. 2020. In the Midst of Plenty: Homelessness and What To Do About It.  Wiley-Blackwell, chs. 3-5.

 

Deborah Padgett, Benjamin Henwood, and Sam Tsemberis. 2015. Housing First: Ending Homelessness, Transforming Systems, and Changing Lives. Oxford University, chs.

 

Jennifer Rae, Jonathan Samosh, Tim Aubry, Sam Tsemberis, Ayda Agha and Dhrasti Shah. 2018.What Helps and What Hinders Program Fidelity to Housing First: Pathways to Housing DC. European Journal of Homelessness, 12, 3: 103-28.

 

HUD. 2016. Family Options Study: 3-Year Impacts of Housing and Services Interventions for Homeless Families. PD&R. Executive Summary. 

https://nlihc.org/resource/follow-family-options-study-long-term-housin…

 

Anne Fletcher and Michelle Wood, Next Steps for the Family Options Study. Cityscape 19, 3: 191-202 OR Michelle Wood and Anne Fletcher, Lessons for Conducting Experimental Evaluations in Complex Field Studies: Family Options Study. Cityscape 19, 3: 271-92. 

 

US Interagency Council on Homelessness. 2019. USICH and SARS-CoV-2: The Federal Response for Families and Individuals Experiencing Homelessness.  Washington, July.

 

October 21 Mobility and Section 8 Housing Vouchers

Guest Speaker: Eva Rosen, Georgetown University

DUE Continuum of Care paper

 

Philip M. E. Garboden, Eva Rosen, Stefanie DeLuca & Kathryn Edin. 2018. Taking Stock: What Drives Landlord Participation in the Housing Choice Voucher Program. Housing Policy Debate, DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2018.1502202 OR

 

Eva Rosen. 2020. The Voucher Promise: "Section 8" and the Fate of an American Neighborhood. Princeton University Press, chs. 3-5.

 

Mary Cunningham et al. 2018. A Pilot Study of Landlord Acceptance of Housing Choice Vouchers (September): HUD/Urban Institute, executive summary pp. ix-xvii.  OR 

Claudia Solari and Jill Khadduri. 2017. Family Options Study: How Homeless Families Use Housing Choice Vouchers. Cityscape 19, 3: 387-412.

 

Edward Goetz. 2003. Housing Dispersal Programs. Journal of Planning Literature 18,1: 3-16 OR

Edward Goetz. 2018. The One-Way Street of Integration. Cornell University Press.  Ch. 5 New Issues, unresolved questions, and the widening debate (LIHTC siting);    Ch. Everyone deserves to live in an opportunity neighborhood.

 

Ingrid Gould Ellen and Justin Peter Steil, eds. 2019. The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates about Housing, Segregation, and Opportunity. Columbia University Press, pp. 298-307, 314-15 (Vouchers).

 

October 28 Public and Subsidized Housing

 

Katrin Anacker, et al. eds. 2018. Introduction to Housing. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2nd ed.: ch 10 Christine Cook, Marilyn Bruin, and Becky Yust, Housing Affordability, pp. 167-182; ch 14 Kirk McClure, Federal Housing Policy, pp. 235-54.

 

Alex Schwartz, Housing Policy in the United States, 3rd. ed.: Ch 5 LIHTC, Ch 6 Public Housing, HOPE VI, RAD, Ch 7 Privately-owned subsidized housing

FILM: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth http://www.pruitt-igoe.com/

 

Michael L. Owens, Rodriguez, A.D. and Brown, R.A. 2020. “Let’s Get Ready to Crumble”: Black Municipal Leadership and Public Housing Transformation in the United States. Urban Affairs Review, Online first.

 

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. 2019. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership. University of North Carolina Press.

 

November 4  Production: LIHTC, CDBG, Trust Funds, Coops

 

Alex Schwartz, Housing Policy in the United States, 3rd. ed.: Ch 5 LIHTC

 

Katrin Anacker, et al. eds. 2018. Introduction to Housing. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2nd ed.: ch 8 Katrin Anacker, Housing Finance Industry, pp 139-55.

 

Amanda Huron. Carving Out the Commons: Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C. University of Minnesota Press, ch. 4 the benefits of limited-equity cooperatives.

 

Hilary Silver. 2018. Can Cities End Homelessness on their Own? Boston Review (February) http://bostonreview.net/forum/cities-hill/hilary-silver-can-cities-end-…

 

Alex Schwartz, Housing Policy in the United States, 3rd. ed. Trust Funds in ch. 9 only pp. 277-82.

 

Center for Community Change. 2016. Opening Doors to Homes for All: The 2016 

Housing Trust Fund Survey Report. Washington. http://housingtrustfundproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/HTF_Surve…

National Low-Income Housing Coalition on the national Housing Trust Fund at: http://nlihc.org/issues/nhtf and Getting Started: First Homes being built with 2016 National Housing Trust Fund Award. https://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/NHTF_Getting-Started_2018.pdf

 

November 11 Exclusion and Inclusion: NIMBY, YIMBY, and AFFH

Segregation, Fair Housing, Exclusionary/Inclusionary Zoning, ADUs/tiny homes/RVs,

 

Richard Rothstein, Segregated By Design https://www.segregatedbydesign.com/

 

Ingrid Gould Ellen and Justin Peter Steil, eds. 2019. The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates about Housing, Segregation, and Opportunity. Columbia University Press, 

Ellen & Steil. 2019.  Introduction.  pp. 1-19;

Reardon & Bischoff, Fennel, Jargowsky, Lens, “Neighborhood Income Segregation,” pp. 56-65;

Ellen, “Causes of Contemporary Racial Segregation,” pp. 89-95; pp. 104-6 (exclusionary zoning), 287-94 (inclusionary zoning)

 

Ann Owens. 2019. Building Inequality: Housing Segregation and Income Segregation. Sociological Science 6: 497-525.

 

VIEW/LISTEN: Conor Dougherty, Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America. Penguin 2020. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2yOZ0gk0Xo

OR Marc Andreessen, It’s Time to Build https://a16z.com/2020/04/18/its-time-to-build/

https://www.vox.com/2020/4/22/21228469/marc-andreessen-build-government…

 

Katherine Levine Einstein, Maxwell Palmer, and David M. Glick. 2019. Who Participates in Local Government? Evidence from Meeting Minutes. Perspectives on Politics 17, 1: 28-46.

C.J. Gabbe. 2018. Why Are Regulations Changed? A Parcel Analysis of Upzoning in Los Angeles. Journal of Planning Education and Research 38, 3: 289-300.

 

READ ONE:

Haisten Willis. 2019. As cities rethink single-family zoning, traditional ideas of the American Dream are challenged. Washington Post (27 June). https://www.washingtonpost.com/realestate/as-cities-rethink-single-fami…

 

Sarah Holder and Kriston Capps. 2019. Despite Resistance, Cities Turn to Density to Tackle Housing Inequality. CityLab (May 21). https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/05/residential-zoning-afforda...

 

Laura Bliss. 2019. Oregon’s Single-Family Zoning Ban Was a ‘Long Time Coming.’ CityLab (July 2). https://www.citylab.com/equity/2019/07/oregon-single-family-zo...

 

November 18 Homelessness and Housing Abroad

Is it worse to be homelessness in the US than in other countries?  In what ways?

 

FEANTSA and Foundation Abbé-Pierre. 2020. Fifth Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe. Brussels: July.

 

Suzanne Speak and Graham Tipple. 2006. Perceptions, Persecution and Pity: The Limitations of Interventions for Homelessness in Developing Countries. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 30, 1: 172-88.

 

November 25 THANKSGIVING BREAK

December 2 Class presentations of student research

December 9 Class presentations of student research

December 16 Final paper due

 

 

 

Supplementary Readings

Home

Witold Rybczynski. Home: A Short History of an Idea. Penguin, 1986.

 

Peter Somerville, Homelessness and the Meaning of Home: Rooflessness or Rootlessness? International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (September 1992): 529-39.

 

Craig Willse, The Value of Homelessness: Managing Surplus Life in the United States. University of Minnesota Press, 2015, Introduction.

 

Homeownership

Brian J. McCabe, No Place Like Home: Wealth, Community and the Politics of Homeownership.  Oxford University Press, 2016, ch 1. 

 

Kim R. Manturuk, Mark R. Lindblad, and Roberto G. Quercia. 2017. A Place Called Home: The Social Dimensions of Homeownership. Oxford University Press.

 

Rowland Atkinson and Keith Jacobs, House, Home, and Society.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Chs. 3, 5.

 

Public Opinion about Homelessness 

Is the public suffering from “compassion fatigue”?

 

Jack Tsai et al. 2019. Public exposure and attitudes about homelessness. Journal of Community Psychology 47:76–92

 

Bruce Link, et al. 1995. Public knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about homeless people: Evidence for compassion fatigue? American Journal of Community Psychology 23, 4: 533-555.

 

Barrett Lee and Chad Farrell, Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime? Homelessness, Panhandling, and the Public. Urban Affairs Review 38, 3 (January 2003) 299-324.

 

History of homelessness

Nels Anderson, On Hobos and Homelessness. The University of Chicago Press; First edition, 1965 (1923) 

 

Charles Booth. 1892. Life and Labour of the People in London.  London/New York: Macmillan. Ch 4 Homeless men.

Jacqueline Wiseman, Stations of the Lost: The Treatment of Skid Row Alcoholics. University of Chicago Press, 1970, Introduction, ch. 1. 

Todd DePastino. 2003. Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America.  University of Chicago Press.

 

Ella Howard. 2013. Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America. University of Pennsylvania Press. Rights on the Bowery.

 

Overviews of Homelessness in the US

Were Americans more tolerant of the homeless before the 1980s?  

Is it accurate to speak of the “new homeless”?

 

Barrett Lee, Kimberly Tyler, & James Wright, The New Homelessness Revisited.

Annual Review of Sociology 36 (2010): 501-521.

 

Dennis Culhane. 2013. Homelessness Research: Shaping Policy and Practice, Now and Into the Future. American Journal of Public Health 103, Supplement 2: 181-2.

 

US Interagency Council on Homelessness. 2018. Home, Together: The Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness. DC: IACH, July.

 

Teresa L. Heinz and David Levinson. 2004. Encyclopedia of Homelessness (illustrated ed.). SAGE. p. 539. ISBN 0-7619-2751-4. Online at GWU DOI: http://dx.doi.org.proxygw.wrlc.org/10.4135/9781412952569.n152

 

Defining, Measuring, Counting, and Classifying the Homeless

Guest Lecture: Dr Claudia Solari, Associate/Scientist, Urban Institute

How and Why do we count the homeless?  

 

Annual Homeless Assessment Report [AHAR] 2018 Part 1:

https://files.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2018-AHAR-Part-1.pdf

 

AHAR 2017 Part 2: https://files.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/2017-AHAR-Part-2.pdf "About this report," "Additional Forms of homelessness and housing instability," and section 1

 

National Alliance to End Homelessness, State trends in homelessness

https://endhomelessness.org/homelessness-in-america/homelessness-statis…

 

Kim Hopper. 2002. Reckoning with Homelessness, Cornell University Press, ch 5: Out for the Count. OR Kim Hopper, Marybeth Shinn, Eugene Laska, Morris Meisner, and Joseph Wanderling. 2008. Estimating Numbers of Unsheltered Homeless People through Plant-Capture and Postcount Survey Methods. American Journal of Public Health 98, 8: 1438-42.

 

Curtis Smith and Ernesto Castaneda. “Improving Homeless Point-In-Time Counts: Uncovering the Marginally Housed.” Social Currents. Volume 6, Number 2, pp. 91–104.

 

Characteristics and Causes of Homelessness: Age, Health, Gender, Race, Veterans, Ex-offenders, People with AIDS/HIV

Are the causes of homelessness structural, personal, or a combination of both?

 

Christopher Jencks. 1995. The Homeless. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, ch. 8, changes in the housing market.

 

Dennis Culhane and Steven Metreaux. 2008. Rearranging the Deck Chairs or Reallocating the Lifeboats?: Homelessness Assistance and Its Alternatives. Journal of the American Planning Association 74, 1: 111-121.

 

Claire W. Herbert, Jeffrey D. Morenoff, and David J. Harding. 2015. Homelessness and Housing Insecurity Among Former Prisoners. RSF: The Russell Sage Journal of the Social Sciences 1, 2: 44-79 OR David Harding, Jeffrey Morenoff, and Claire Herbert. 2013.  Home Is Hard to Find: Neighborhoods, Institutions, and the Residential Trajectories of Returning Prisoners. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 647, 1: 214-236.

 

Gregory Larkin Purser, Orion P. Mowbray, and Jay O’Shields. 2017. The Relationship Between Length and Number of Homeless Episodes and Engagement in Survival Sex. Journal of Social Service Research 43, 2: 262–269. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01488376.2017.1282393

 

Douglas L. Polcin. 2016. Co-occurring substance abuse and mental health problems

among homeless persons: Suggestions for research and Practice. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless 25, 1: 1-10. DOI: 10.1179/1573658X15Y.0000000004

Websites on severe mental illness among homeless
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/mental-illness.shtml
https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/cbhsqreports/NSDUHDetai…

HHS's National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) has data on drug use, alcohol abuse, and mental health 

Where is Homelessness Greatest?

 

Jamison Fargo, EA Munley, Thomas Byrne, AE Montgomery, and Dennis Culhane. 2013. Community-level characteristics associated with variation in rates of homelessness among families and single adults. American Journal of Public Health 103 Supplement 2:S340-7. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301619

 

David Bartelt, Karin Eyrich-Garg, and Brian Lockwood. 2017. The Relationships between Community Context and Entry into a Homeless Shelter System. Journal of Urban Affairs 39, 5: 675-90.

 

 

Criminalization of Homelessness and the Cleansing of Public Space

Is the enforcement of nuisance laws/broken windows policing of the homeless unjust?  

 

Jeremy Waldron. 1991. Homelessness and the Issue of Freedom. UCLA Law Review 39: 295-324.

Don Mitchell. 2003. The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space. Guilford, ch 6: No Right to the City: Anti-Homeless Campaigns, Public Space Zoning, and the Problem of Necessity 

Margaret Kohn. 2004. Brave New Neighborhoods: The Privatization of Public Space. Routledge, ch. 8, pp. 130-46, “Homeless-free Zones: Three Critiques”

National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. 2016. Housing, Not Handcuffs: Ending the Criminalization of Homelessness in US Cities. Washington: NLCHP, pp. 7-34

 

National Law Center for Homelessness and Poverty. 2018. Serving and Protecting?  Survey Results on Homeless New Yorkers Experiences with Law Enforcement (November), p. 5.

Forrest Stuart, On the Streets, Under Arrest: Policing Homelessness in the 21st Century. Sociology Compass 9/11 (2015): 940–950.

Andrew Deener. 2012. Venice. University of Chicago Press. Ch. 3, People out of place, pp. 86-123.

Mitchell Duneier. 2000. Sidewalk. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, pp.157-216: Sidewalk Sleeping, When You Gotta Go, Talking to Women, Limits of informal control

Survival Strategies and Criminalization: Ethnographic evidence

Elliott Liebow, Tell Them Who I Am: The Lives of Homeless Women.  Penguin, 1995, pp. 1-24, 51-80.

Gwendolyn Dordick, 1997. Something Left To Lose: Personal Relations and Survival Among New York’s Homeless. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press. 

Philip Bourgois. Righteous Dopefiend. University of California Press, 2009.

James Wright & Amy Donley. Poor and Homeless in the Sunshine State: Down and Out in Theme Park Nation. New Brunswick: Transaction, 2011, chs 4, 6, 12 Safer Outside

Darrin Hodgetts, Ottilie Stolte, Kerry Chamberlain, Alan Radley, Linda Nikora, Eci Nabalarua & Shiloh Groot. 2008. A trip to the library: homelessness and social inclusion.  Social & Cultural Geography, Vol. 9, No. 8, December: 933-53.

 

Jeff Ferrell, Empire of Scrounge. NYU Press, 2005.

 

Teresa Gowan, 2010. Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco. University of Minnesota Press, ch 5 The New Hobos

Mitchell Duneier and Harvey Molotch, “Talking City Trouble: Interactional Vandalism, Social Inequality, and the Urban Interaction Problem.” American Journal of Sociology 104, 5 (March 1999): 1263-95.

Steve Herbert and Katherine Beckett. 2010. ‘This is home for us': Questioning banishment from the ground up.  Social & Cultural Geography, 11: 3, 231-245 OR 

Steve Herbert and Beckett, Katherine. 2009. Banished: The New Social Control In Urban America. Oxford University Press.

Michele Wakin. 2008. Using Vehicles to Challenge Antisleeping Ordinances. City & Community 7, 4 (December): 309-329.

One man's journey into homelessness - Will Jones: "He was a Yale graduate, Wall Street banker and entrepreneur. Today he's homeless in Los Angeles"

https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/17/us/los-angeles-yale-graduate-homeless/in…

 

Alex Vitale. 2017. The End of Policing. Verso. Ch 5. Criminalizing Homelessness 

 

Peter Edelman. 2017. Not a Crime to Be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty. New Press, ch. 8: crime-free housing ordinances and the criminalization of homelessness.

Forrest Stuart. 2014. From ’Rabble Management’ to ’Recovery Management’: Policing Homelessness in Marginal Urban Space. Urban Studies 51, 9 (July 2014): 1909–1925 OR Forrest Stuart. 2016. Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Preface, Introduction, chs. 1, 2, Conclusion.

National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. 2014. No Safe Place: The Criminalization of Homelessness in U.S. Cities. Washington: NLCHP, pp. 7-34, 47.

John Hagan and Bill McCarthy. 1998. Mean Streets: Youth, Crime and Homelessness. Cambridge University Press.

Leonard C. Feldman. 2004. Citizens without Shelter: Homelessness, Democracy, and Political Exclusion.  Chs. 2, 3.

Samira Kawash, 1998. The Homeless Body.  Public Culture 10, 2: 319-39. 

 

Encampments vs Shelters

Petula Dvorak. 2019. Getting rid of the homeless won’t make homelessness go away. Washington Post (10 January)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/getting-rid-of-the-homeless-wont-m…

 

Amy M. Donley & James D. Wright. 2012. Safer Outside: A Qualitative Exploration of Homeless People's Resistance to Homeless Shelters, Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 12, 4: 288-306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15228932.2012.695645  

OR James D. Wright & Amy M. Donley. 2017.  Poor and Homeless in the Sunshine State: Down and Out in Theme Park Nation. Ch. 6 (ch 12 Miami vs. Orlando)

 

The National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty. 2017. Tent City USA: The Growth of America’s Homeless Encampments and How Communities are Responding. Washington. Executive Summary.

 

Jessie Speer. 2017. “It’s not like your home”: Homeless Encampments, Housing Projects, and the Struggle over Domestic Space. Antipode 49, 2: 517–535 doi: 10.1111/anti.12275

 

Chris Herring. 2014. The New Logics of Homeless Seclusion: A Comparative Study of Large-Scale Homeless Encampments in the Western US. City & Community 13(4): 285-309. DOI: 10.1111/cico.12086. 

 

Johnny Magdaleno. 2017. San Diego Hopes Two New Tools Will Curb Homelessness Crisis. Next City (June 15). https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/san-diego-homelessness-crisis-new-tools  See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_NVCuvyUro

 

National Law Center for Homelessness and Poverty. 2018. Tent City, USA: The Growth of America’s Homeless Encampments and How Communities are Responding.  Washington. Executive Summary.

 

Jessie Speer. 2017. “It’s not like your home”: Homeless Encampments, Housing Projects, And the Struggle over Domestic Space. Antipode 49, 2: 517–535.

 

Stephen Metraux, Meagan Cusack, Fritz Graham, David S Metzger, & Dennis P Culhane. 2019. An Evaluation of the City of Philadelphia's Kensington Encampment Resolution Pilot. University of Pennsylvania, Executive Summary. https://works.bepress.com/dennis_culhane/227/

 

Rebecca Cohen, Will Yetvin, & Jill Khadduri. 2019. Understanding Encampments of People Experiencing Homelessness and Community Responses: Emerging Evidence as of Late 2018. Washington: Abt Associates, pp. 1-22.

 

Kirk Johnson. 2018. A Homeless Camp in Our Back Yard? Please, a University Says. New York Times (Febuary 27). https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/us/homeless-camp-seattle.html

Jen Kinney. 2016. Should Seattle Be Building Tent Cities for the Homeless? Next City (July 11). https://www.jakinney.com/all-blog/2017/12/5/should-seattle-be-building-…

 

Unaffordable Rental Housing 

Jessica Bruder. 2017. Nomadland: Surviving American in the 21st Century. New York: WW Norton.  Forward, ch. 1, 3 (CamperForce)

 

Randy Shaw. 2019. Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America. University of California Press, pp. 6-10, 34-35, 103-114, 176-208.

 

Brian Goldstone. 2019. Housing insecurity in the nation’s richest cities is far worse than government statistics claim. Just ask the Goodmans. The New Republic (August 21). https://newrepublic.com/article/154618/new-american-homeless-housing-in…

 

Housing Instability, Rent Control, and Tenant Protections

Question: Will rent control prevent evictions and at what cost? 

Christopher Dum. 2016. Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel. 2015. New York: Columbia University Press, introduction, ch. 1.

Noelle Stout. 2019. Dispossessed: How Predatory Bureaucracy Foreclosed on the American Middle Class. University of California Press, Chs. 3, 5.

 

Amee Chew & Sarah Treuhaft. 2019. Our Homes, Our Future: How Rent Control Can Build Stable, Healthy Communities. February.  Right to the City, PolicyLink, Center for Popular Democracy.

 

Henry Grabar. 2018. Rent Control Is Back. Slate (October 17)

Https://slate.com/business/2018/10/rent-control-is-back.html?utm_campaign=Brookings+Brief&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=66837855

 

Asquith, Brian J. 2019. Rent Control‒Is the Cure Worse Than the Disease? Employment Research 26(1): 1-4 https://doi.org/10.17848/1075-8445.26(1)-1

 

 

Federally Subsidized Low-income Housing Programs: 

Public Housing, Section 8, HOPE VI, RAD, LIHTC, CDCs, and other Federal Production and Finance Programs

What went wrong with public housing, and what is good about it? What makes housing "affordable"?

 

Emily Badger. 2016. The basic reason why there just isn’t enough decent housing for the poor. Washington Post (July 26). https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/26/the-basic-reason…

 

Janet L. Smith. 2015. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Public Housing Policy. Journal of Urban Affairs 37, 1: 42-46.

 

Jesse Drucker and Eric Lipton. 2019. How a Trump Tax Break to Help Poor Communities Became a Windfall for the Rich. New York Times (30 August).

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/31/business/tax-opportunity-zones.html

 

Dirk Early. 1998. The Role of Subsidized Housing in Reducing Homelessness: An Empirical Investigation Using Micro-Data. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 17, 4: 687–696.

 

Edward Goetz. 2013. New Deal Ruins: Race, Economic Justice, and Public Housing Policy. Cornell University Press, ch 1, or Edward G. Goetz “Where Have All the Towers Gone? The Dismantling of Public Housing in U.S. Cities,” Journal of Urban Affairs  33, 3 (2011): 267–87.

 

Nicholas Dagen Bloom. 2008. Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Introduction. 

 

Ben Austin. 2018. High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing. Harper.

 

Lawrence Vale. 2013. Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared Communities. University of Chicago Press, Ch. 7 Bringing the Gold Coast to the Slum: Cabrini-Green’s Redevelopment and the Litigation of Inclusion

 

Sudhir Venkatesh. 2000. American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, ch. 3 What it’s like to be in hell.

 

Housing Choice Vouchers and Mobility Policies

Alex Schwartz, Housing Policy in the United States, Ch 8 Vouchers

 

Alexandra M. Curley, Erin Michelle Graves, and Gretchen Weismann. 2019. Barriers and opportunities in the housing voucher program: The importance of race in the housing search process. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Issue Brief 2019-3 (August).

 

Ingrid Gould Ellen. 2018. What do we know about housing choice vouchers? Regional Science and Urban Economics pp. 1–5

 

Philip M. E. Garboden, Eva Rosen, Stefanie DeLuca & Kathryn Edin. 2018.

Taking Stock: What Drives Landlord Participation in the Housing Choice Voucher Program. Housing Policy Debate. DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2018.1502202

 

Susan Clampet-Lundquist and Douglas S. Massey. 2008. Neighborhood Effects on Economic Self- Sufficiency: A Reconsideration of the. Moving to Opportunity Experiment. American Journal of Sociology 114, 1 (July 2008): 107–43. (MTO Symposium)

 

Jonathan Rothwell. 2015. Sociology’s Revenge: Moving to Opportunity (MTO) revisited. Brookings. May 6. On Raj Chetty

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2015/05/06/sociolo…

 

Jill Khadduri. 2010. Rental Subsidies: Reducing Homelessness, pp. 59-88 in Ingrid Gould Ellen and Brendan O’Flaherty, eds. How to House the Homeless. New York: Russell Sage.

 

Martha Galvez. 2010. What do we know about Housing Choice Voucher Location Outcomes? A review of the literature. Urban Institute/ What Works Collaborative, August, OR

Jennifer Darrah and Stefanie DeLuca. 2014. “Living Here Has Changed my Whole Perspective”: How Escaping Inner-City Poverty Shapes Neighborhood and Housing Choice. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 33, 2: 350–384.

 

Housing First and Rapid Rehousing

Housing First vs. Shelters:  What is wrong with emergency shelters?  

 

HUD Exchange, Housing First in Permanent Supportive Housing 

https://www.hudexchange.info/resources/documents/Housing-First-Permanen…

 

US Interagency Council on Homelessness. 2019. Resource Roundup: Assisting People to Move Swiftly Into Permanent Housing.

https://www.usich.gov/news/resource-roundup-assisting-people-to-move-sw…

 

Mary Cunningham, Sarah Gillespie, and Jacqueline Anderson. Rapid Rehousing: What the Research Says. Washington: Urban Institute, 2015.

 

Jennifer Rae, Jonathan Samosh, Tim Aubry, Sam Tsemberis, Ayda Agha and Dhrasti Shah. 2018.What Helps and What Hinders Program Fidelity to Housing First: Pathways to Housing DC. European Journal of Homelessness, 12, 3: 103-28.

 

Victoria Stanhope and Kerry Dunn. 2011. The curious case of Housing First: The limits of evidence based policy. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry 34: 275–282.

 

Nicholas Pleace & Joanne Bretherton. 2013. The case for Housing First in the European Union: A critical evaluation of concerns about effectiveness. European Journal of Homelessness. housingfirstguide.eu

 

Suvi Raitakari and Kirsi Juhila. 2015. Housing First Literature: Different Orientations

and Political-Practical Arguments. European Journal of Homelessness 9, 1: 145-89.

 

Medicaid and Housing as Health Care

Raquel Maria Dillon. 2019.  In Oakland and elsewhere, health care is investing in affordable housing. March 12, 2019 NPR https://play.publicradio.org/api-2.0.1/o/marketplace/segments/2019/03/1…

 

Matt Chaban. 2013. Housing the Homeless — Built with Medicaid Money. New York Daily News (08 October). http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/housing-homeless-medicaid-mon…

 

Liz Barney. 2017. Doctors could prescribe houses to the homeless under radical Hawaii bill. The Guardian (28 February). https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/28/hawaii-homeless-housing…

 

Housing Trust Funds 

Peter Salsich. 2009. National Affordable Housing Trust Fund Legislation: The Subprime Mortgage Crisis Also Hits Renters. Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy 16, 1

 

Tiny Houses and ADUs

 

Georgia Perry. 2017. Can Tiny Homes Solve America’s Homeless Problem? Narratively (January 13) https://narratively.com/can-tiny-homes-solve-americas-homeless-problem/

 

Jenny Xie. 2017. 10 tiny house villages for the homeless across the U.S.: Case studies for a trending idea. Curbed (July 18) https://www.curbed.com/maps/tiny-houses-for-the-homeless-villages

 

Cindy Widner. 2018. Small-home village takes big step to end homelessness: Community First! expansion breaks ground. Curbed Austin (October 17).  [faith-based nonprofit Mobile Loaves & Fishes]

https://austin.curbed.com/2018/10/17/17991264/tiny-micro-home-village-a…

 

Heather Shearer & Paul Burton (2019) Towards a Typology of Tiny Houses. Housing, Theory and Society, 36:3, 298-318,DOI: 10.1080/14036096.2018.1487879

 

Jasmine Ford and Lilia Gomez-Lanier. 20177. Are Tiny Homes Here to Stay? A Review of Literature on the Tiny House Movement. Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 0, No. 0, June 2017 394–405. DOI: 10.1111/fcsr

 

Anthony Flint. 2018. Boston Wants People To Build Tiny Houses In Their Yards. City Lab (May 11)

https://www.citylab.com/design/2018/05/boston-wants-residents-to-build-…

 

Jack Favilukis, Pierre Mabille, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh. 2018. Affordable Housing and City Welfare. NBER Working Paper 25906 (February 15). Zoning, rent control. https://www.nber.org/papers/w25906

 

Sharon Lee. 2019. Tiny House Villages in Seattle: An Efficient Response to Our Homelessness Crisis. ShelterForce (March 15).  https://shelterforce.org/2019/03/15/tiny-house-villages-in-seattle-an-e…

 

Associated Press. 2017. Tiny Houses Are Trendy _ Unless They Go Up Next Door (November 14) https://www.apnews.com/a50ebe8461004748be0984281029418b

Miles Howard. 2018. You can’t just put homeless people in tiny houses. (May 22). https://theoutline.com/post/4639/tiny-house-affordable-housing-adu-bost…

 Next City. 2019. Housing in Brief: Montgomery County MD Votes to Allow ADUs

(26 July) https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/housing-in-brief-montgomery-county-md-… OR

https://patch.com/maryland/rockville/controversial-zoning-bill-adopted-…

Accessory Dwelling Units https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/31/realestate/yes-in-your-backyard.html…

Homeless Social Movements

Can the homeless stand up for themselves or do they need advocates?

Eleanora Pasotti, Resisting Redevelopment: Protest in Aspiring Global Cities. Cambridge University Press, Studies in Contentious Politics  www.cambridge.org/9781108745444 

Miguel Martinez, Squatters in the Capitalist City. Housing, justice, and urban politics. New York: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Squatters-in-the-Capitalist-City-Housing-Just…

Neil Smith, Class Struggle on Avenue B: The Lower East Side as Wild Wild West, pp. 3-29 in The Urban Frontier. Routledge, 1996.

 

Talmadge Wright. 1997. Out of Place: Homeless Mobilizations, Subcities, and Contested Landscapes. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

 

David Wagner, Checkerboard Square: Culture and Resistance in a Homeless Community. Westview, 1993.

 

Rob Rosenthal and Maria Foscarinis, “Responses to Homelessness: Past Policies, Future Directions and a Right to Housing,” ch 15 in Rachel Bratt, Michael Stone, and Chester Hartman, eds. A Right to Housing: Foundation for a New Social Agenda. Temple University Press, 2006. 

 

Ananya Roy. 2003. Paradigms of Propertied Citizenship: Transnational Techniques of Analysis.  Urban Affairs Review 38, 4: 463-491 DOI: 10.1177/1078087402250356

 

Sparks, T. 2017a. “Citizens Without Property: Informality and Political Agency in a Seattle, Washington Homeless Encampment,” Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 49 (1): 86–103. doi:10.1177/0308518X16665360 

 

Homelessness in International Perspective

 

Paul A. Toro et al. 2007. Homelessness in Europe and the United States: A Comparison of Prevalence and Public Opinion. Journal of Social Issues 63, 3: 505-524.

 

Matthew Marr. 2012. Pathways out of Homelessness in Los Angeles and Tokyo: Multilevel Contexts of Limited Mobility amid Advanced Urban Marginality. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 36, 5: 980-1006.  

 

Gautam Bhan and Swathi Shivanand. 2013. (Un)Settling the City: Analysing Displacement in Delhi from 1990 to 2007. Economic & Political Weekly 47,13 (March 30): 54-61. 

 

Ivan Turok & Jackie Borel-Saladin. 2016. Backyard shacks, informality and

the urban housing crisis in South Africa: stopgap or prototype solution?, Housing Studies 31, 4: 384-409, DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2015.1091921 OR 

 

Williams, Lucy A. 2014. The  Right to Housing in South Africa: An Evolving Jurisprudence. School of Law Faculty Publications. http://lsr.nellco.org/nusl_faculty/56

 

Juergen Von Mahs. 2013. Down and Out in Los Angeles and Berlin: The Sociospatial Exclusion of Homeless People. Temple University Press, chs. 1, 6.

 

Margaret Greenfields. 2009.  Gypsies, Travellers, and Accommodation. Race Equality Foundation Briefing Paper 10. London. pp. 1-6. 

Abbe Pierre Foundation & FEANTSA, Third Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe 2018. https://www.feantsa.org/download/full-report-en1029873431323901915.pdf

 

Gordon Mathews, Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong. University of Chicago Press, 2011.

 

Matthew Marr. 2015. Better Must Come: Exiting Homelessness in Two Global Cities. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2015, ch. 4. 

 

Graham Tipple and Suzanne Speak. 2005. Definitions of homelessness in developing countries. Habitat International 29: 337–352.

 

Ingrid Gould Ellen and Justin Peter Steil, eds. 2019. The Dream Revisited: Contemporary Debates about Housing, Segregation, and Opportunity. Columbia University Press, pp. 44-55.

 

Homelessness in Film 

Hilary Silver, Direction Home (58 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS8hoRwk6Kw

Hilary Silver, “Southside: The Fall and Rise of an Inner-City Neighborhood.” Mandela Woods segment.

Richard Rothstein, Segregated By Design https://www.segregatedbydesign.com/

Oren Moverman, Time Out of Mind (2014) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L09lqYYw2yc

Marc Singer, Dark Days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTNeG9m_3Uw

Elizabeth Lo, Hotel 22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9BEbWu8Ygc

When I Came Home (70 minutes) on homeless veterans. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufJ_-ktwxjM

FILM: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth http://www.pruitt-igoe.com/

COVID and homelessness

US Interagency Council on Homelessness. 2019. USICH and SARS-CoV-2: The Federal Response for Families and Individuals Experiencing Homelessness.  Washington, July.

 

Dennis P Culhane, Dan Treglia, Kenneth Steif, Randall Kuhn, et al.. "Estimated Emergency and Observational/Quarantine Capacity Need for the US Homeless Population Related to COVID-19 Exposure by County; Projected Hospitalizations, Intensive Care Units and Mortality" (2020) 
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/dennis_culhane/237/ 

 

Community-level COVID-19 Homelessness Planning & Response Dashboard

https://tomhbyrne.shinyapps.io/covid19_homeless_dashboard/

The dashboard is based on this report of the impact of COVID-19 on the homeless population and was created by the report's authors: Dennis P. Culhane, Dan Treglia, & Ken Steif from the University of Pennsylvania, Tom Byrne from the Boston University School of Social Work and Randall Kuhn from UCLA.  The dashboard will be updated regularly as new data become available and to add new information. Update announcements will be made here on TwitterCode for dashboard is available here  Please direct any comments, suggestions, questions or information about errors to Tom Byrne at [email protected]

 

Ingrid Ellen, Erin Graves, Katherine O’Regan, and Jenny Schuetz. 2020. Strategies for increasing affordable housing amid the COVID-19 economic crisis.  June 8, 2020 

https://www.brookings.edu/research/strategies-for-increasing-affordable…