effect of a life shock on homelessness. Using survey data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study that have been … augmented with information from hospital medical records, we find that the health shock increases the likelihood of homelessness … three years later, particularly in cities with high housing costs. Homelessness is defined using both a traditional measure …

Homelessness may be both a cause of and one of the more extreme outcomes of poverty. Governments at all levels have a … variety of tools to combat homelessness, and these strategies have changed dramatically over the past quarter century. In this …