Housing Instability & Homelessness

Listing of Articles focusing on evictions, foreclosures, relocations/displacement & homelessness.

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Housing Instability & Homelessness Resources

Using Intercity and Intracity Data to Understand Homelessness

An article in Housing Policy Debate by Deden Rukmana, “The Causes of Homelessness and the Characteristics Associated with High Risk of Homelessness: A Review of Intercity and Intracity Homelessness Data,” examines the sources, functions, and merits of different data types – intracity and intercity…

House Passes Bill to Expand HUD-VASH Program

The House of Representatives passed on January 15 the “Veteran HOUSE Act of 2020” (H.R. 2398) by a vote of 362-31. The bill would allow chronically homeless veterans who have received “other than honorable” (OTH) discharges to participate in the HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-…

House Subcommittee Discusses Ways to Improve HUD-VASH

The House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity on January 14 held a hearing about “Making HUD-VASH Work for all Veteran Communities” on how to make the HUD-VA Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program more effective. The hearing included two panels of witnesses: the first…