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As inequality rises in the United States, the rich and poor are increasingly unlikely to interact with one another. Corinth and Finley use data on "311" calls reporting homeless individuals in New York City between 2010 and 2016 to determine whether the rich are more likely to see or interact...
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Corinth and Lucas look the relationship between climate and homelessness. They find that cold places uniformly have low … rates of unsheltered homelessness, while warm places display wide variation. …
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Social service providers such as teachers, healthcare providers and homeless shelters receive trillions of dollars each year to help people. Recently, policymakers and other funders have attempted to obtain better outcomes by implementing performance-based incentive schemes that pay more money...
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Over the past decade, a major effort to "end homelessness" has lead to a marked expansion in permanent housing for the …. The muting effect is driven entirely by the homeless subpopulation with relatively shorter spells of homelessness … positively associated with the sheltered homeless population. Ultimately, sustained reductions in homelessness are strongly …
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While almost all homeless people are poor, most poor people do not experience homelessness. We use a detailed national … explaining why only a subset of poor adults fall into homelessness. …
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