Homelessness Archives

03.17.2025 Shopping carts with a pile of rubbish underneath a bridge. unhoused concept

Investing in the Health of Boston's Unhoused

Collaboration between several Boston-based organizations highlights the immediate and long-term support cities can offer the unhoused.

Fellow Heather Sherr

08.26.2024 Blue public restroom sign

Access Denied: Houselessness and WaSH

The lack of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) resources available in public place an undue burden on those experiencing houselessness.

Fellow Dani Weissert

03.28.2024 Historic housing buildings on the Upper West Side in New York City

The Cost of Stability: Affordable Housing and Health

Housing assistance programs are associated with reduced anxiety and stress, and increased feelings of control. But these programs alone cannot solve the health challenges associated with housing instability.

Fellow Adna Jaganjac

03.15.2024 residential housing

Promoting Housing Stability: Eviction Prediction

Helping the unhoused population requires not only finding stable housing for those without shelter, but also keeping people from losing their homes in the first place.

Fellow Sean Hagan

02.13.2024 aerial view of housing in Boston's Back Bay

Boston’s Housing Waitlists: Lengthy Lists, Tentative Tenants

In Boston, rising rents are forcing poor individuals and families to wait for affordable housing, with the average waitlist time being around 3 years.

Fellow Sean Hagan

10.26.2023 bar graph depicting rates and types of homelessness by gender identity among homeless youth

Homelessness and Health Among Gender Minority Youth

Gender minority youth are more likely to experience homelessness—and its resulting safety and health concerns—than their cisgender peers.

Fellow Adna Jaganjac

08.31.2023 skyline of Salt Lake City, Utah, where the headquarters for Intermountain Health are located

When Housing and Jobs Become Health Care

Intermountain Health is working to make the communities they serve healthier by focusing on delivering health rather than health care.

Guest Authors Theadora Sakata, Sam Thomas, Raj Srivastava, Mikelle Moore

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

04.29.2022 a trash can full of white paper towels

Period Poverty and the Unhoused

People experiencing homelessness reported difficulty obtaining sufficient menstrual products—in shelters and on the streets.

Fellow Bethany Hallenborg

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