Although existing scholarship notes that homelessness thrives in concentrated poverty,
models estimating the association between the intensity of residential poverty segregation�…

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�…

Understanding the root causes of homelessness is important for developing effective
solutions to the problem. This fact has not gone unnoticed by researchers, who have made�…

The geographic concentration of poverty has long characterized innercity neighborhoods in
the United States. Concentrated poverty has deleterious consequences for individuals and�…

Homelessness remains a core element of the current housing stability crisis in the United
States, especially in urban communities. Disparities are an important part of the pathway to�…

Existing research has examined the community-level factors associated with sheltered and
unsheltered homelessness in the United States, generally finding that housing, labor market�…

Few recent studies of homelessness have focused on the distribution of the phenomenon
across different types of community contexts. Nevertheless, claims are often made about the�…

Poverty segregation increased in Southern California during the 1990s. A comparison of
four indices reflecting various dimensions of segregation (eg, evenness, concentration�…

Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern assert that understanding homelessness at the
metropolitan level is most effectively achieved by examining rental costs and vacancies�…

Trends in concentrated neighborhood poverty in the United States have been volatile over
the past several decades. Using data from the 1980 to 2000 decennial census and the 2010�…