Early, DW & Olsen, EO 2002, “Subsidized housing, emergency shelters, and homelessness: an empirical investigation using data from the 1990 census”, Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy, vol.2, no.1, viewed 25 July 2013,

This paper evaluates the impact on the rate of homelessness of a wide variety of important determinants through using data on the systematic count of the homeless across the United States. More than a dozen studies have tried to explain dissimilarity in rates of homelessness throughout urban areas in the United States. Many studies have attempted to conclude the factors that clarify the incidence of homelessness and to appraisal the importance of these factors. However, this paper improves upon appraisal of the result of previously studied determinants, and analyzes the effects of the undercount of homeless for point appraisal and hypothesis tests.

This study estimates separate reversions for the sheltered, street, and total rate of homelessness as an clarification variable may have qualitatively dissimilar impacts on these rates and these dissimilarity often matter for policy estimation. Targeting the current budget authority for housing assistance on the poorest eligible households will basically eliminate homelessness among those who request for assistance is the most important finding from a policy aspect. The 1990 Decennial Census did not produce adequately precise counts, particularly of the street homeless, to accede accurate estimates of the results of many factors which surely influence the rate of homelessness, which is the primary methodological finding of this paper.

The significance of this study is to understand the influences on the rate of homelessness of different important determinants. Hence, this paper argues that the counts of the street homeless were not adequately precise of the result that influence the rate of homelessness.

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Mansur, E & John, M & Raphael, Steven & Smolensky, E 2001, “Examining policies to reduce homelessness using general equilibrium model of the housing marke”, Institute for Research on Poverty Discussion Paper no.1228-01

This paper examines the possibility to reduce the incidence of homelessness of diverse housing-market policy interposition through using a generic equilibrium simulation model of the housing market. In modern America urban area, homelessness could be an arresting social issue. Since the early 1980s, cities around the country have experienced maintained growth in a deal of apparently homeless and in a deal of individuals who seeks temporary shelter in public and privately - run facilities. Thus, it is important to assess the government’s policies whether it reduce the rate of homelessness or not.

This paper assesses the effectiveness in decreasing the incidence of homelessness of many policy interventions in the housing market by using an extended version of the simulation model. This model explains the working of a regional housing market, which dewells units filter through a quality hierarchy and which households of different income levels select among these individual types. The increase in homelessness accompanied with increase dispersion of earnings and household income distributions. In addition, changing the price of the lowest quality of housing can affect the level of homelessness because of changes in the distribution of income.

The purpose of this study is to underscore a very large pact of homelessness can be eliminated through raised reliance upon famous housing subsidy policies. The housing market intervention that either decrease rents for low-rent housing or rise the incomes of low-income households can affect substantially on the size of homelessness populations.

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UnitingCare Children, Young People and Families 2011, Mapping the road home: tracing responses to