Improving access to housing and supportive services for runaway and homeless youth: Reducing vulnerability to human trafficking in New York City

Kaya, Yaren Bilge; Maass, Kayse Lee; Dimas, Geri L.; Konrad, Renata; Trapp, Andrew C.; Dank, Meredith

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“…and social science venues (n=12). Other papers were published in health venues (n=8) and in an engineering venue [58]. All academic papers included in our dataset (n=55) were peer-reviewed and were published in journals (n=29) and conferences (n=26).…”

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A Human-Centered Review of Algorithms in Homelessness Research

Moon,

Guha

2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Homelessness is a humanitarian challenge affecting an estimated 1.6 billion people worldwide. In the face of rising homeless populations in developed nations and a strain on social services, government agencies are increasingly adopting data-driven models to determine one's risk of experiencing homelessness and assigning scarce resources to those in need. We conducted a systematic literature review of 57 papers to understand the evolution of these decision-making algorithms. We investigated trends in computational methods, predictor variables, and target outcomes used to develop the models using a human-centered lens and found that only 9 papers (15.7%) investigated model fairness and bias. We uncovered tensions between explainability and ecological validity wherein predictive risk models (53.4%) unduly focused on reductive explainability while resource allocation models (25.9%) were dependent on unrealistic assumptions and simulated data that are not useful in practice. Further, we discuss research challenges and opportunities for developing human-centered algorithms in this area.CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Human-computer interaction (HCI); Empirical studies in HCI ; • Applied computing → Computing in government.

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A Human-Centered Review of Algorithms in Homelessness Research

Moon,

Guha

2024

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…and RHY from different demographic groups with limited patience arriving to the a large crisis and emergency shelter in NYC [110].…”

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“…We use a simulation-based approach and provide a comparison of different interpretable queue routing strategies that can be employed as housing allocation mechanisms. Our aim with this study is to present a more efficient and equitable way to route RHY to crisis and emergency shelters [111].…”

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“…The application of operations research (OR) and analytics techniques can provide solutions to various challenges in public housing systems. Previous research related to OR and analytics efforts to reduce homelessness and improve access to housing resources largely focus on three broad areas: (i) location planning [105,103,143], (ii) capacity planning [113,114,158], and (iii) allocation mechanisms or routing strategies [107,40,24,17,181,110].…”

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“…Their strategy, which we define as the "Most Likely to Exit Homelessness First" (Most Likely to Exit Homelessness First (MLEHF)), focuses on maximizing the probability of unhoused youth's safe and stable exit from the housing program. [110] take a different approach and study equitable access for the most vulnerable RHY, considering demographic characteristics including human trafficking history, mental health or substance abuse issues, and immigrant status. The authors present the "Most Vulnerable First" (Most Vulnerable First (MVF))…”

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Operations research and analytics methods to improve equitable access to public services

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brother, whose love and guidance are with me in whatever I pursue. Your unwavering support, patience, and care have made me the person I am today (and the Russian classics you made me read growing up).Last but not least, I want to express my deepest appreciation to my loving and supportive partner, Carl, who has always been there for the best and the worst to provide his unending inspiration. There were times knowing that he believed in me was my only motivation to keep trying. v TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS iii LIST OF TABLES vii LIST OF FIGURES ix

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Survey on Lagrangian relaxation for MILP: importance, challenges, historical review, recent advancements, and opportunities

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2023

Ann Oper Res

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Improving access to housing and supportive services for runaway and homeless youth: Reducing vulnerability to human trafficking in New York City

Cited by 5 publications

References 48 publications

A Human-Centered Review of Algorithms in Homelessness Research

A Human-Centered Review of Algorithms in Homelessness Research

Operations research and analytics methods to improve equitable access to public services

Survey on Lagrangian relaxation for MILP: importance, challenges, historical review, recent advancements, and opportunities

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