Charley E. Willison

Guest Author

Charley E. Willison  is an assistant professor of public health at Cornell University. She is a political scientist studying the relationships between local politics, intergovernmental relations, and public health political decision-making, with a primary focus on homelessness. Dr. Willison’s 2021 book, Ungoverned and Out of Sight: Public Health and the Political Crisis of Homelessness in the United States (Oxford University Press) examines why municipalities may use evidence-based approaches to address chronic homelessness in their jurisdictions or not. Her book won the 2022 Dennis Judd Best Book Award, which recognizes the best book on urban politics (domestic or international) published in the previous year.

Charley's Work:

07.17.2023 living camp for someone experiencing homelessness

Staggering and Persistent Racial Disparities in Homelessness

Rates of homelessness among Black American, American Indian or Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander groups were more than double the rates of homelessness among White and Asian groups.

Guest Authors Naquia Unwala, Phillip M. Singer, Timothy B. Creedon, Brian Mullin, Benjamin Lê Cook, Charley E. Willison