Living with family and friends is a common strategy to prevent or exit homelessness, but little known about structural barriers that impede friends’ ability provide temporary permanent housing for older homeless adults. We conducted semi-structured interviews 46 participants from the HOPE HOME study, cohort of 350 community-recruited adults age 50 in Oakland, CA, who reported staying housed fam...

When most people hear the words affordable housing, they picture old-style urban public housing with apartments stacked end-to-end, replete with graffiti and shadylooking characters, unkempt and marked by a general malaise. Nothing seems healthy about it. But today’s affordable housing is different. Successful projects are well-designed, built to a reasonable scale, and have landscaping and ame...

Trends are one of the main determinants controlling, directing and regulating behavior, therefore any change requires first knowledge prevailing trends among individuals, their ability to modify transform towards desired change, as new contradict what there may be inherent well-established in souls, often. What leads disintegration turmoil impedes occurrence we aiming at terms development progr...

F amilies receiving public assistance differ from other families not only demographically, but also in the way they spend. Expenditures on basic needs account for a larger share of the assisted families’ spending. Furthermore, when the assisted families are classified by the number of public assistance programs received (such as medicaid, food stamps, and subsidized housing), the data indicate ...