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What’s Happening to Homelessness Policy in the US, and What Might Europeans Learn from It?
Dennis P. Culhane · Mar 2026Dennis Culhane examines recent developments under the Trump administration that threaten to redirect U.S. federal homelessness funding away from housing programs. The article traces the rise of the Ho...
Regional Characteristics of Housing Loss Risk during COVID-19
Soshiro Yamada, Dennis P. Culhane, Yusuke Kakita, Hiroshi Goto · Nov 2025In Japan, the decrease in homelessness is attributed to the adoption of a narrow definition focusing solely on rough sleepers. However, by adopting a broader conceptualization similar to ETHOS, it is...
Addressing Homelessness: U.S. Sweeps Versus Japan's Public Assistance
Matthew D. Marr, Hiroshi Goto, Dennis P. Culhane · Oct 2025Rather than sweep encampments and cut budgets, Japan found success with needs-based cash benefits and housing subsidies
Scoping provision of WASH services for unsheltered individuals: practitioners' experiences from the West Coast (U.S.)
Miriam E. Hacker, Meagan Cusack, Dennis P. Culhane · Apr 2025This study focuses on five West Coast cities in the United States (U.S.) to understand current access to water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) interventions targeted toward individuals experiencing ho...
How Much Would It Cost to Provide Housing First to All Households Staying in Homeless Shelters
Dennis P Culhane, Matthew Fowle, Joy Moses · Mar 2025Housing First is a proven evidence-based approach to addressing homelessness. However, programs operating under the Housing First model do not receive the necessary funding to meet the needs of all pe...
Generalized Anxiety Disorder Prevalence and Disparities Among U.S. Adults The Roles Played by Job Loss, Food Insecurity, and Vaccinations During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Chenyi Ma, Tony E. Smith, Dennis P Culhane · Feb 2025Objectives: The purposes of this study are to examine (i) to what extent job loss and food insecurity accounted for racial disparities in generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) risk among adults in the Un...
Persistence of a birth cohort effect in the US among the adult homeless population
ThomasByrne;Kelly M.Doran,MD;RandallKuhn,;StephenMetraux,;MaryanneSchretzman,DSW;DanTreglia,;Dennis P.Culhane · Dec 2024Older adult homelessness is increasing in the US. Research published more than a decade ago using 1990 to 2010 decennial Census data suggested this is due to a birth cohort effect. Persons born betwee...
NYC report Preventing Young Adult Homelessness among Students at Risk
Dennis P Culhane, TC Burnett, CIDI · Nov 2024The transition to adulthood is a particularly difficult time for most youth, and this difficulty is magnified for young adults experiencing homelessness. These young people have often already survived...
The stress-buffering effects of received social support on PTSD among Hurricane Ike survivors
Chenyi Ma, Tony E. Smith, Dennis P Culhane · Sep 2024Hurricane Ike made landfall in the Galveston Bay Area in 2008, destroying parts of the built and natural environment, and leaving survivors with a high prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTS...
Understanding the dynamic process of human behavior changes towards disaster preparedness: An application of the integrated TTM with SCT and PMT
Chenyi Ma, Dennis P Culhane, Sara S. Bachman · Jun 2024Integrating the Transtheoretical Model with Social Cognitive Theory and Protection Motivation Theory, we propose a new model to study the progress of behavior changes towards disaster preparedness alo...
LA County's Homeless Initiative Annual Performance Evaluation, Year 6 Outcomes
Halil Toros, Dennis P Culhane, Stephen Metraux · Dec 2023In July 2023, the Office of the Homeless Initiative (HI) within Los Angeles County's Chief Executive Office commenced its eighth year and the seventh since the County began receiving Measure H sales t...
NYC report HOMELESS PREVENTION AT-RISK STUDENTS IN NEW YORK CITY SCHOOLS
Dennis P Culhane, Antoine Lovell, CIDI · Jul 2023In the 2021-2022 school year, more than 104,000, or 1 out of 10 students resided in temporary housing (New York City Department of Education, 2022). Most of these students families lived doubled up wi...
Defining and Counting Homelessness
Dan Treglia, Dennis P Culhane · May 2023Drawing on experience from the United States, this chapter explores the challenges at improving global statistics on the extent and nature of homelessness. Definitions and measurements of homelessness...
Homelessness in the United States
Samantha Batko, Dennis P Culhane · May 2023This chapter looks at the nature, extent, and experience of homelessness in the United States. An overview of federal responses to homelessness is provided, alongside a discussion of the definition an...
LA County's Homeless Initiative: Annual Performance Evaluation, Year 5 Outcomes
Halil Toros, Dennis P Culhane, Stephen Metraux · Dec 2022As has been the practice in all four previous HI annual performance evaluations, the main body of this report begins at a macro level of measurement in Section 2, where the performance of Measure Hfun...
Addressing low income household sheltering needs after a disaster: A needs assessment among Hurricane Harvey housing victims
Chenyi Ma, Dennis P Culhane · Dec 2022Existing literature suggests many victims of housing loss due to disaster need emergency shelter, and low-income individuals are at risk of becoming chronically homeless without assistance in the tran...
Expanding TANF Program Insights: A Toolkit for State and Local Agencies on How to Access, Link and Analyze Unemployment Insurance Wage Data
Edith Yang, Sharon Zanti, Richard Hendra, Dennis P Culhane, Zarni Htet, Adelia Jenkins, Camille Preel-Dumas, Electra Small · Nov 2022The aim of the toolkit is to offer practical guidance to state and local TANF agencies on how to access, link to, and analyze Unemployment Insurance (UI) wage data from state Departments of Labor for ...
A Three Phase Methodology for Conducting Equity Focused Needs Assessments
Sharon Zanti, Dennis P Culhane · Sep 2022This paper describes methods for conducting equity-focused needs assessments in human service organizations (HSOs). We begin with an overview of needs assessments in social welfare, then describe a th...
From "Rebuilding Ireland" to "Housing for All": International and Irish Lessons for Tackling Homelessness
Isabelle Baptista, Dennis P Culhane, Nicholas Pleace, Eoin O'Sulliva · Sep 2022A group of international researchers with experience of strategic analysis of homelessness policy, practice and service programmes were asked to review the effects of the Rebuilding Ireland strategy o...
Performance of 2 Single-Item Screening Questions to Identify Future Homelessness Among Emergency Department Patients
Thomas Byrne, Mindy Hoang, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Eileen Johns, Marybeth Shinn, Tod Mijanovich, Dennis P Culhane · Aug 2022OBJECTIVE To examine the performance of 2 single-item screening questions assessing emergency department (ED) patients self-perceived risk of future homelessness.DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This...