Housing Instability & Homelessness

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Formerly Incarcerated People Are Nearly 10 Times More Likely to be Homeless

A report by Lucius Couloute of the Prison Policy Initiative, Nowhere to Go: Homelessness among formerly incarcerated people, finds that formerly incarcerated people are nearly ten times more likely to be homeless than the general public. The rate of homelessness for formerly incarcerated people was…

Employment and Earnings Among NYC Homeless Adults

A study published in Cityscape, “Employment and Earnings Trajectories During Two Decades Among Adults in New York City Homeless Shelters” suggests an association between employment shocks and the onset of homelessness. Nonetheless, 45% of homeless single adults and 38% of homeless adults in…

Congressional Progressive Caucus Publishes The People’s Budget

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) has released The People’s Budget: A Progressive Path Forward for FY19. The proposed budget would fully fund programs to make housing affordable and accessible for all Americans and would invest $12.8 billion to end family homelessness. The CPC budget aims…

USICH Releases Strategic Plan to End Homelessness

The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) released “Home, Together: The Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness.” The plan represents the strategies that the 19 federal agency members of USICH will pursue to reach their goal of ending homelessness among veterans,…