The impact of permanent supportive housing on homeless populations

The geography of unsheltered homelessness in the city: Evidence from “311” calls in New York

“…On a single night in 2017, just under 193,000 people were found unsheltered in the United States—in places not intended for human habitation such as sidewalks, parks, cars, or abandoned buildings (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, ). The extent of unsheltered homelessness varies widely across cities in the United States, and research has documented important determinants of this variation, including climate (e.g., Corinth & Lucas, ), housing prices (e.g., Early, ; Hanratty, ; Quigley, Raphael, & Smolensky, ), and policy differences (e.g., Corinth, ; Early & Olsen, ; Lucas, ; Raphael, ).…”

The Impact of Federal Homelessness Funding on Homelessness

“…If shelter, transitional housing, and other supportive services are more stabilizing in the longterm, causing reductions in homelessness, funding could be more effective than the present estimates suggest. But Corinth (2017) notes that permanent supportive housing may actually be less effective in the long run, and his empirical results suggest that emergency shelter and transitional housing increase homeless counts in the long run. 18 A final limitation concerns the relationship between federal funds and other homelessness expenditures (e.g., other federal programs, state and local governments, private foundations).…”

“…Corinth () assembles a community‐level national panel of homelessness, shelter, and permanent supportive housing from 2007 to 2014. His is the first article to use strictly within‐community variation and includes a number of important nonpolicy covariates, including median rent and weather.…”

“…While an important step in identifying the relationship between chronic homelessness and funding, endogeneity concerns and homeless data enumeration shortcomings during the period limit the applicability of these results. Corinth (2017) assembles a community-level national panel of homelessness, shelter, and permanent supportive housing from 2007 to 2014. His is the first article to use strictly withincommunity variation and includes a number of important nonpolicy covariates, including median rent and weather.…”

“… The short‐run effect of permanent supportive housing allocated to a homeless individual is a one‐person reduction in the homeless population. But if that individual's exit rate from permanent supportive housing is slower than his or her counterfactual exit without permanent supportive housing, the long‐run effect on the homeless counts will be less than one‐for‐one—and approaches zero under certain assumptions (Corinth , p. 79).…”