Homeless people are, by definition, isolated from mainstream society. They lack stable housing, and often lack connections with jobs, families, and communities. This paper summarizes what we know about reconnecting homeless people and individuals into the community and in turn fostering self-sufficiency, including improving their residential stability and employability, and reuniting them with ...

Challenges to Finding Safe and Affordable Housing Securing safe and affordable housing is a challenge for millions of Americans. For individuals with severe and persistent mental illness this challenge is even more diffi cult. The sad reality is that most individuals with severe and persistent mental illness live at or below the poverty line and even though many receive subsidized supports such...

This paper presents new mathematical programming-based planning models for the provision of affordable housing to low-income and moderate-income families by government and nongovernmental entities. These models address two key policy concerns of housing providers: setting priorities for investments among a variety of affordable housing programs, and choosing locations and configurations for par...

Unaffordable Housing and Local Employment Growth: Evidence from California Municipalities It is widely believed that unaffordable housing could drive businesses away and thus impede job growth. However, there is little evidence to support this view. This paper presents a simple model to clarify how housing affordability is linked to employment growth and why unaffordable housing could negativel...

OBJECTIVE Although there is much evidence about the effects of particular housing conditions on health, less is known about the practices of public health inspectors (PHIs) in relation to minimizing or eliminating potential housing health risks. The purpose of this qualitative study was to illuminate the practices of PHIs in relation to types of biological and physical housing risks. METHOD T...

1 In a world of uncertainty, imperfect information and irreversible decision-making, speculation and information acquisition will generate bubbles, herding and frenzies in housing demand. The instability generated will be further exacerbated by liquidity constraints and institutional change. In this paper, the influence of herds, frenzies and bubbles on housing demand is assessed in the context...

In this paper we study a general equilibrium model with a housing market, and use stability under adaptive learning as a criterion to evaluate monetary policy rules. An important feature of the model is that there exist credit-constrained borrowers who use their housing assets as collateral to finance purchases. We evaluate both conventional Taylor rules and rules that incorporate other targets...

This paper develops an agent-based spatial model of the housing market. Real estate is many families’ single biggest asset. It is also widely held by financial institutions, in the form of mortgage based securities. As a result, avoiding extreme housing price volatility is crucial for maintaining financial stability of the nation. The housing market is very unique: it is thin, highly regulated,...