Research and Evaluation listings
Investing in proven solutions is a key theme of the Opening Doors. Much research has been and is being conducted on homelessness across the federal government. There is tremendous opportunity to better understand and apply what is being learned by coordinating and sharing research across federal agencies and with states and local communities.
Towards that end, USICH released the nation's first-ever National Research Agenda: Priorities for Advancing Our Understanding of Homelessness in October 2012. This Agenda outlines priority areas where we believe Federal, local, and private investments should be made in additional research.
USICH has compiled and developed abstracts for approximately 200 studies conducted over the past decade; research that helped inform the Research Agenda and that contines to help improve the knowledge base of the field. Users can browse through the listings below or sort the information using the “Information by” filter along the left-hand side of the screen. Users can also search by keyword using the search box in the top right corner of every page.
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Homelessness among persons with serious mental illness
Erik Kuno 2000 Homelessness and patterns of service use were examined among seriously mentally ill persons in an area with a well-funded community-based mental health system. The sample consisted of 438 individuals referred between 1990 and 1992 to an extended acute care psychiatric ...
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Lorraine C. Taylor 2001 Most of the extant research on welfare reform has neglected to consider the experiences of families in rural settings. Fifty women receiving welfare for their dependent children in a rural community were interviewed about their work experiences and aspirations, ...
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Cynthia J. Bogard 2001 This study examines the relationship between work and depressive symptomatology for extremely destitute single mothers-mothers who have experienced an episode of homelessness. Using longitudinal data collected from 294 respondents who became homeless in 1992 and were ...
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Multiply homeless families: the insidious impact of violence
Ellen L. Bassuk 2001 Little is known about the dynamics of homelessness among families that have been homeless more than once. Using longitudinal data from the Worcester Family Research Project, this article describes the duration of family homelessness, compares the characteristics of ...
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Event History Analysis of Antecedents to Running Away from Home and Being on the Street
Kevin A. Yoder 2001 Event history analysis was used to study the correlates of running away from home for the first time and spending time directly on the street (sleeping outside or in an abandoned building) for the first time in a sample of 602 homeless and runaway adolescents from four ...
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Characteristics of Veterans and Nonveterans in Three Samples of Homeless Men
Robert Rosenheck and Paul Koegel September 1993 To uncover possible explanations for the large numbers of veterans in the homeless population, the study sought to identify differences in sociodemographic and clinical characteristics between homeless male veterans and other homeless men. A ...
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Sequential Validation of Cluster-Analysis Subtypes of Homeless Veterans
Keith Humphreys February 1995 To identify subgroups within the homeless population, a number of researchers have employed cluster analytic statistical procedures. Although this is an appropriate application of cluster analysis, many studies have not employed important statistical safeguards ...
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The Relationship of Public Support Payments to Substance Abuse among Homeless Veterans
Linda Frisman and Robert Rosenheck June 1997 A suspicion that disability payments may exacerbate substance use among persons with chemical addictions recently led Congress to limit federal disability entitlements of applicants whose disability status is related to substance abuse, even if ...
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Homeless Mentally Ill Veterans: Race, Service Use, and Treatment Outcomes
Robert Rosenheck, Catherine Leda, Linda Frisman and Peggy Gallup October 1997 Comparisons of service use and treatment outcomes for 145 black and 236 white homeless veterans with mental disorders showed few differences. A greater improvement in psychiatric symptoms and alcohol problems ...
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Substance Use and Psychiatric Problems of Homeless Native American Veterans
Wesley J. Kasprow and Robert Rosenheck March 1998 This study estimated the proportion and representation of Native Americans among homeless veterans and compared their psychiatric and substance abuse problems with those of other ethnic groups of homeless veterans. The study was based on data ...
