Evictions and Prolonged Homelessness

Crane, Maureen; Warnes, Anthony

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“…Rent-burdened families often face eviction, which has been linked to a wide array of negative outcomes, from homelessness and residential instability to material hardship and depression (Crane and Warnes 2000;Desmond 2012;Desmond and Kimbro 2015). Families involuntarily displaced from their homes relocate to neighborhoods with higher poverty and crime rates and are more likely to live in substandard housing (Desmond et al 2015;Desmond and Shollenberger 2015).…”

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Are Landlords Overcharging Housing Voucher Holders?

Desmond

Perkins

2016

City & Community

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The structure of rental markets coupled with the design of the Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCVP), the largest federal housing subsidy for low‐income families in the United States, provides the opportunity to overcharge voucher holders. Applying hedonic regression models to a unique data set of Milwaukee renters combined with administrative records, we find that vouchered households are charged between $51 and $68 more in monthly rent than unassisted renters in comparable units and neighborhoods. Overcharging voucher holders costs taxpayers an estimated $3.8 million each year in Milwaukee alone, the equivalent of supplying 620 additional families in that city with housing assistance. These findings suggest that the HCVP could be made more cost‐effective—and therefore more expansive—if overcharging were prevented.

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Are Landlords Overcharging Housing Voucher Holders?

Desmond

Perkins

2016

City & Community

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“…The current economic situation, particularly the reduction in the availability of credit, has led to increased financial pressures on home owners. However, the majority of research on housing eviction has been conducted in the developing world around the issue of land appropriation, with some notable exceptions in The Netherlands,2 Sweden,3 the USA,4 5 6 and research on older populations 7. The characteristics of housing repossession in the UK are distinct from other European nations due to the cost of housing, the high housing cost/income proportion and decline in the supply of social housing, all of which makes it more difficult to recover from a repossession and get another form of housing.…”

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Housing repossessions, evictions and common mental illness in the UK: results from a household panel study

Pevalin

2009

Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health

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Background: The numbers of housing repossessions and evictions in the UK are increasing. This study investigates whether repossessions and evictions increase the likelihood of common mental illness and examine patterns over time. Methods: Data come from the core longitudinal panel of the British Household Panel Survey (N = 12 390) of adults living in private households. Multivariate fixedeffects regression models are used with weighted data. Common mental illness is measured by the 12-item General Health Questionnaire. Results: Housing repossession is associated with an increased risk of common mental illness (adjusted odds ratio 1.61, 95% confidence interval 1.10 to 2.36), whereas eviction from rented property shows no increased risk (0.97, 0.76 to 1.20). The pattern over time shows a clear increase in the years before repossession. Conclusions: Repossession of owned property, although a relatively rare event in the panel, significantly increases the risk of common mental illness immediately after the event. In contrast, eviction from rented property is a more common event but is not associated with an increased risk of common mental illness. This difference in association may be due to losing the security of owned housing and the often transitory nature of the rented housing population.Since 1991, there have been more than half a million repossessions and more than one million eviction orders made on behalf of social and private landlords.1 The current economic situation, particularly the reduction in the availability of credit, has led to increased financial pressures on home owners. However, the majority of research on housing eviction has been conducted in the developing world around the issue of land appropriation, with some notable exceptions in The Netherlands, 2 Sweden, 3 the USA, 4-6 and research on older populations. 7 The characteristics of housing repossession in the UK are distinct from other European nations due to the cost of housing, the high housing cost/income proportion and decline in the supply of social housing, all of which makes it more difficult to recover from a repossession and get another form of housing. The deleterious effects of unsustainable financial commitments for housing on mental health have been documented and for a significant minority this results in repossession or eviction.8-10 Housing tenure has a long-established association with psychological well-being, but this study examines the effects of compulsory changes to housing tenure through repossession or eviction. 11-14 METHODSData came from 17 annual waves of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), which started in 1991 and later added booster samples for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The BHPS is a wellestablished survey that is extensively documented elsewhere.15 16 Overall, the panel was unbalanced as individuals move in and out of the study according to a set of following rules. This analysis used the core longitudinal panel of respondents who have been in the survey at all eligible time points a...

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“…The onset of the present social housing study coincides with the growing con cern for the sustainability of urban environments which is at the center of popular attention, not only in the South‐East but also nationally and even internationally (Satterthwaite 1999). There is a plethora of contradictory information about semi‐official forms of social housing schemes like short‐life housing co‐ops which provide an alternative route to accessing cheap and flexible accommodation (Crane and Warnes 2000; Raimy 1979). The tenants of these types of housing organizations are often misrepresented in government statistics.…”

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“…Caption: Sieving through the objects left behind after a member abandoned his flat (Photo A. Snow, 2005) plethora of contradictory information about semi-official forms of social housing schemes like short-life housing co-ops which provide an alternative route to accessing cheap and flexible accommodation (Crane and Warnes 2000;Raimy 1979). The tenants of these types of housing organizations are often misrepresented in government statistics.…”

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A Matter of “Co‐opportunism”: (In)Alienability in London Social Housing

Laviolette

2008

City & Society

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This paper explores the dynamics of temporary urban residency. It looks at the relationships between domesticity, mobility and improvisational housing – all relevant to Britain's housing crisis. Hence, I offer a reflexive ethnographic description of ‘short‐life’ co‐op living based on a five year account of managing vacant properties that await refurbishment or re‐development by two major Charitable Housing Trusts based in West London. In questioning how tenants deal with the constant threat of having to move, I ask how members of a short‐life housing co‐op create their own sense of self and stability through a temporary form of accommodation. My goal is thus to investigate how these co‐op tenants appropriate space, relocate themselves and cope with transient domestic alienability. The creative formulation of individual and community identities are central to the wider understanding and implications of residential instability, alternative lifestyles and the general underlying ethos of co‐operative organizations.

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Evictions and Prolonged Homelessness

Cited by 78 publications

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Are Landlords Overcharging Housing Voucher Holders?

Are Landlords Overcharging Housing Voucher Holders?

Housing repossessions, evictions and common mental illness in the UK: results from a household panel study

A Matter of “Co‐opportunism”: (In)Alienability in London Social Housing

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