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来源

HOUSING POLICY DEBATE,Vol.28,Issue3,P.368-392

语言

英文

关键字

Homelessness; homelessness entries; homelessness prevention; private information; longitudinal studies; NEW-YORK-CITY; PREVENTION; FAMILIES; HOME

作者单位

[O'Flaherty, Brendan; Scutella, Rosanna] Columbia Univ, Dept Econ, New York, NY 10027 USA. [Scutella, Rosanna] Univ Melbourne, Melbourne Inst Appl Econ & Social Res, Melbourne, Vic, Australia. [Tseng, Yi-Ping] RMIT Univ, Ctr Appl Social Res, Melbourne, Vic, Australia. O'Flaherty, B (reprint author), Columbia Univ, Dept Econ, New York, NY 10027 USA. E-Mail: bo2@columbia.edu

摘要

Do people at risk of homelessness have private informationinformation that social service agencies cannot credibly obtainthat helps predict whether they will become homeless? This article asserts that the answer to this question is yes: homeless people and people at risk of homelessness know important things about their future. Data from Journeys Home (JH), a pathbreaking longitudinal study of people experiencing homelessness and people at risk of homelessness in Australia, are used in this article. In many cases, the private information that participants have predicts entries better than the public information that agencies can obtain. Ways in which this private information can be used to improve service delivery are suggested.