Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S Patterns by Clayton Page Aldern, Gregg Colburn

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/646605 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S Patterns Author: Clayton Page Aldern, Gregg Colburn Narrator: Adam Verner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 22 minutes Release date: February 21, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area. Using accessible statistical analysis, they test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city—including mental illness, drug use, poverty, weather, generosity of public assistance, and low-income mobility—and find that none explain the regional variation observed across the country. Instead, housing market conditions, such as the cost and availability of rental housing, offer a far more convincing account. With rigor and clarity, Homelessness Is a Housing Problem explores United States cities' diverse experiences with housing precarity and offers policy solutions for unique regional contexts.