• Dr. Culhane’s primary area of research is homelessness and assisted housing policy. His research has contributed to efforts to address the housing and support needs of people who experience housing emergencies and long-term homelessness. • Dr. Culhane’s recent research includes studies of vulnerable youth and young adults, including those transitioning from foster care, juvenile justice, and residential treatment services. • Dr. Culhane is the Director of Research for the National Center on Homelessness among Veterans at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. • Dr. Culhane co-directs the Intelligence for Social Policy initiative, a MacArthur-funded project to promote the development of integrated database systems by states and localities for policy analysis and systems reform. • Dr. Culhane co-directs the Cartographic Modeling Laboratory (CML), which applies spatial analysis to model the impact of the social and built environments on health, development, and behavior.
2009-2011 Publications
Prevalence and Risk of Homelessness among US Veterans (with Jamison Fargo, Stephen Metraux, Thomas Byrne, Ellen Munley, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Harlan Jones, George Sheldon, and Vincent Kane), Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy (2012)
Introduction
Understanding the prevalence of and risk for homelessness among veterans is prerequisite to preventing...
Helping L.A.'s Foster Kids Grow Up (with Byrne Thomas and Stephen Metraux), The Los Angeles Times (2012)
Homelessness and Children's Use of Mental Health Services: A Population-Based Study (with Jung Min Park, Stephen Metraux, and David Mandell), Children and Youth Services Review (2011)
This study examined whether children who become homeless differ from other low-income children in their...
The 2011 Point-in-Time Estimate of Homelessness: Supplement to the Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (with Alvaro Cortes, Meghan Henry, Josh Leopold, Larry Buron, and Jill Khadduri) (2011)
This report outlines the key findings of the 2011 Point-In-Time (PIT) counts conducted in January...
Young Adult Outcomes of Youth Exiting Dependent or Delinquent Care in Los Angeles County (with Thomas Byrne, Stephen Metraux, Manuel Moreno, Halil Toros, and Max Stevens) (2011)
This report investigates the young adult outcomes of youth who age-out of or otherwise exit...
Most Requested
The 2010 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (with Alvaro Cortes, Josh Leopold, Louise Rothschild, Larry Buron, and Jill Khadduri) (2011)
The 2010 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) represents the sixth in a series of reports...
Rearranging the Deck Chairs or Reallocating the Lifeboats?: Homelessness Assistance and Its Alternatives (with Stephen Metraux), Journal of the American Planning Association (2008)
Problem: At present, homelessness in the United States is primarily addressed by providing emergency and...
The Cost of Homelessness: A Perspective from the United States, European Journal of Homelessness (2008)
This paper discusses how researchers and others have analyzed the services histories of persons who...
Testing a Typology of Family Homelessness Based on Patterns of Public Shelter Utilization in Four U.S. Jurisdictions: Implications for Policy and Program Planning (with Stephen Metraux, Jung Min Park, Maryanne Schretzman, and Jesse Valente), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2007)
This study tests a typology of family homelessness based on patterns of public shelter utilization...
Recent Incarceration History among a Sheltered Homeless Population (with Stephen Metraux), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2006)
This study examined incarceration histories and shelter use patterns of 7,022 persons staying in public...
Homelessness among Families with Children
Homelessness and Children's Use of Mental Health Services: A Population-Based Study (with Jung Min Park, Stephen Metraux, and David Mandell), Children and Youth Services Review (2011)
This study examined whether children who become homeless differ from other low-income children in their...
The Patterns and Costs of Services Use among Homeless Families (with Jung Min Park and Stephen Metraux), Journal of Community Psychology (2011)
This study examines families’ use of behavioral health hospitalization and foster care placement prior to,...
The Impact of Shelter Use and Housing Placement on Mortality Hazard for Unaccompanied Adults and Adults in Family Households Entering New York City Shelters: 1990-2002 (with Stephen Metraux, Nicholas Eng, and Jay Bainbridge), Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine (2011)
This study examines mortality among New York City (NYC) homeless shelter users, assessing the relationships...
Ending Family Homelessness in Massachusetts: A New Approach for the Emergency Assistance Program (with Thomas Byrne) (2010)
This paper explores the current opportunity for policy reform of the Emergency Assistance (EA) system...
Behavioral health services use among heads of homeless and housed poor families (with Jung Min Park and Stephen Metraux), Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (2010)
Objectives. This study compares the use of and cost for behavioral health services among heads...
Homelessness among People with Behavioral Health-related Disabilities
Homelessness and Children's Use of Mental Health Services: A Population-Based Study (with Jung Min Park, Stephen Metraux, and David Mandell), Children and Youth Services Review (2011)
This study examined whether children who become homeless differ from other low-income children in their...
The Patterns and Costs of Services Use among Homeless Families (with Jung Min Park and Stephen Metraux), Journal of Community Psychology (2011)
This study examines families’ use of behavioral health hospitalization and foster care placement prior to,...
Service Use and Costs for Persons Experiencing Chronic Homelessness in Philadelphia: A Population-Based Study (with Stephen R. Poulin, Marcella Maguire, and Stephen Metraux), Psychiatric Services (2010)
Objective: This study is the first to examine the distribution of service utilization and costs...
Ending Chronic Homelessness: Cost-Effective Opportunities for Interagency Collaboration (with Thomas Byrne), Penn School of Social Policy and Practice Working Paper (2010)
Faced with a difficult economic climate with high levels of unemployment and widespread home foreclosures,...
Behavioral health services use among heads of homeless and housed poor families (with Jung Min Park and Stephen Metraux), Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved (2010)
Objectives. This study compares the use of and cost for behavioral health services among heads...
Homelessness among Veterans
Prevalence and Risk of Homelessness among US Veterans (with Jamison Fargo, Stephen Metraux, Thomas Byrne, Ellen Munley, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Harlan Jones, George Sheldon, and Vincent Kane), Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy (2012)
Introduction
Understanding the prevalence of and risk for homelessness among veterans is prerequisite to preventing...
Veteran Homelessness: A Supplemental Report to the 2010 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress (with Jill Khadduri, Alvaro Cortes, Meghan Henry, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Thomas Byrne, Ellen Munley, and National Center on Homelessness among Veterans) (2011)
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are...
Prevalence and Risk of Homelessness among US Veterans: A Multisite Investigation (with Jamison Fargo, Stephen Metraux, Thomas Byrne, Ellen Munley, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Harlan Jones, and George Sheldon) (2011)
This study analyzes HMIS and American Community Survey data from seven jurisdictions to assess the...
Veteran Homelessness: A Supplemental Report to the 2009 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (with Jill Khadduri, Alvaro Cortes, Larry Buron, Joshua Leopold, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Ellen Munley, Thomas Byrne, and John Kuhn) (2011)
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)...
Homelessness and the Criminal Justice System
Service Use and Costs for Persons Experiencing Chronic Homelessness in Philadelphia: A Population-Based Study (with Stephen R. Poulin, Marcella Maguire, and Stephen Metraux), Psychiatric Services (2010)
Objective: This study is the first to examine the distribution of service utilization and costs...
Tackling Homelessness in Los Angeles' Skid Row: The Role of Policing Strategies and the Spatial Deconcentration of Homelessness, Criminology and Public Policy (2010)
While recent research suggests that policing interventions can reduce crime through the spatial deconcentration of...
Institutional discharges and subsequent shelter use among unaccompanied adults in New York City (with Stephen Metraux and Thomas Byrne), Journal of Community Psychology (2010)
This study empirically examines the link between homelessness and discharges from other institutions. An administrative...
Using Adult Linkages Project Data for Determining Patterns and Costs of Services Use by General Relief Recipients in Los Angeles County (with Stephen Metraux) (2009)
This study examines services use and related costs for two cohorts of General Relief (GR)...
Recent Incarceration History among a Sheltered Homeless Population (with Stephen Metraux), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2006)
This study examined incarceration histories and shelter use patterns of 7,022 persons staying in public...
Homelessness and HIV/AIDS
An Assessment of the Housing Needs of Persons with HIV/AIDS: New York City Eligible Metropolitan Statistica Area, Final Report (with Virginia Shubert, Hillary Botein, Suzanne Wagner, and Steve Poulin) (2004)
Homelessness and HIV Risk Behaviors among Injection Drug Users (with Stephen Metraux and David S. Metzger), Journal of Urban Health (2004)
This article uses data from an 8-year study of injection drug users to examine whether...
The Co-Occurrence of AIDS and Homelessness: Results from the Integration of Administrative Data for AIDS Surveillance and Public Shelter Utilization in Philadelphia (with Erica E. Gollub, Randall R. Kuhn, and Mark Shpaner), Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health (2001)
STUDY OBJECTIVE: Administrative databases from the City of Philadelphia that track public shelter utilisation (n=44...
Philadelphia Eligible Metropolitan Area AIDS Housing Needs Assessment: 1997-2001 (with Kimberly Acquaviva, Ellen Alpert, and David Fair) (1996)
This report describes the results of a survey of people in Philadelphia with HIV/AIDS regarding...
Homelessness, Child Welfare and Out-of-home Placement
Helping L.A.'s Foster Kids Grow Up (with Byrne Thomas and Stephen Metraux), The Los Angeles Times (2012)
Young Adult Outcomes of Youth Exiting Dependent or Delinquent Care in Los Angeles County (with Thomas Byrne, Stephen Metraux, Manuel Moreno, Halil Toros, and Max Stevens) (2011)
This report investigates the young adult outcomes of youth who age-out of or otherwise exit...
The Patterns and Costs of Services Use among Homeless Families (with Jung Min Park and Stephen Metraux), Journal of Community Psychology (2011)
This study examines families’ use of behavioral health hospitalization and foster care placement prior to,...
Homelessness and Child Welfare Services in New York City: Exploring Trends and Opportunites for Improving Outcomes for Children and Youth (with Jung Min Park), Departmental Papers (2007)
Childhood Out-of-home Placement and Dynamics of Public Shelter Utilization among Young Homeless Adults (with Jung Min Park and Stephen Metraux), Children and Youth Services Review (2005)
This study determined the prevalence of childhood experiences with child welfare supervision and placement among...
Homelessness Management Information Systems and the Policy Uses of Administrative Data
The 2010 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (with Alvaro Cortes, Josh Leopold, Louise Rothschild, Larry Buron, and Jill Khadduri) (2011)
The 2010 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) represents the sixth in a series of reports...
Veteran Homelessness: A Supplemental Report to the 2009 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (with Jill Khadduri, Alvaro Cortes, Larry Buron, Joshua Leopold, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Ellen Munley, Thomas Byrne, and John Kuhn) (2011)
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)...
The 2009 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress (with Alvaro Cortes, Jill Khadduri, and Larry Buron) (2010)
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is pleased to present the 2009...
The 2008 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress (with Jill Khadduri, Alvaro Cortes, and Larry Buron), US Department of Housing and Urban Development (2009)
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is pleased to present the 2008...
The 2007 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress (with Jill Khadduri, Alvaro Cortes, Larry Buron, and Steve Poulin), Third Annua Report to the Congress (2008)
The 2007 AHAR is the first AHAR based on an entire year of data about...
Homelessness Policy Analysis and Commentary
Helping L.A.'s Foster Kids Grow Up (with Byrne Thomas and Stephen Metraux), The Los Angeles Times (2012)
The Right to Housing: An Effective Means for Addressing Homelessness? (with Thomas Byrne), University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change (2011)
A number of international human rights instruments and national constitutions establish a right to housing....
Book Review: How to House the Homeless. Edited by Ingrid Gould Ellen and Brendan O'Flaherty. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2010, Social Service Review (2011)
A Prevention-Centered Approach to Homelessness Assistance: A Paradigm Shift? (with Stephen Metraux and Thomas Byrne), Housing Policy Debate (2011)
Prevention has long been cited as an important part of any strategy to end homelessness....
Homelessness and Housing Exclusion in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities for Research and Policy (with Thomas Byrne), Homelessness Research in Europe: Festschrift for Bill Edgar and Joe Doherty (2011)
The European Parliament recently passed a Written Declaration “calling for an ambitious EU homelessness strategy...
Homelessness Population Estimation, Demographic Composition and Trends
Prevalence and Risk of Homelessness among US Veterans (with Jamison Fargo, Stephen Metraux, Thomas Byrne, Ellen Munley, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Harlan Jones, George Sheldon, and Vincent Kane), Preventing Chronic Disease: Public Health Research, Practice and Policy (2012)
Introduction
Understanding the prevalence of and risk for homelessness among veterans is prerequisite to preventing...
The 2011 Point-in-Time Estimate of Homelessness: Supplement to the Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (with Alvaro Cortes, Meghan Henry, Josh Leopold, Larry Buron, and Jill Khadduri) (2011)
This report outlines the key findings of the 2011 Point-In-Time (PIT) counts conducted in January...
Veteran Homelessness: A Supplemental Report to the 2010 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report to Congress (with Jill Khadduri, Alvaro Cortes, Meghan Henry, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Thomas Byrne, Ellen Munley, and National Center on Homelessness among Veterans) (2011)
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) are...
Prevalence and Risk of Homelessness among US Veterans: A Multisite Investigation (with Jamison Fargo, Stephen Metraux, Thomas Byrne, Ellen Munley, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Harlan Jones, and George Sheldon) (2011)
This study analyzes HMIS and American Community Survey data from seven jurisdictions to assess the...
The Impact of Shelter Use and Housing Placement on Mortality Hazard for Unaccompanied Adults and Adults in Family Households Entering New York City Shelters: 1990-2002 (with Stephen Metraux, Nicholas Eng, and Jay Bainbridge), Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine (2011)
This study examines mortality among New York City (NYC) homeless shelter users, assessing the relationships...
Homelessness Prevention and Housing Stabilization
A Prevention-Centered Approach to Homelessness Assistance: A Paradigm Shift? (with Stephen Metraux and Thomas Byrne), Housing Policy Debate (2011)
Prevention has long been cited as an important part of any strategy to end homelessness....
Ending Family Homelessness in Massachusetts: A New Approach for the Emergency Assistance Program (with Thomas Byrne) (2010)
This paper explores the current opportunity for policy reform of the Emergency Assistance (EA) system...
Rearranging the Deck Chairs or Reallocating the Lifeboats?: Homelessness Assistance and Its Alternatives (with Stephen Metraux), Journal of the American Planning Association (2008)
Problem: At present, homelessness in the United States is primarily addressed by providing emergency and...
Help in Time: An Evaluation of Philadelphia's Community-Based Homelessness Prevention Program (with Yin-Ling I. Wong, Meg Koppel, Stephen Metraux, David E. Eldridge, Amy Hillier, and Helen R. Lee) (1999)
This report provides an evaluation of Philadelphia's neighborhood-based homelessness prevention initiative. Results indicate that nearly...
Where Homeless Families Come From: Toward a Prevention-Oriented Approach in Washington, DC (with Chang-Moo Lee) (1997)
Homelessness Program Accountability and Costs
The Patterns and Costs of Services Use among Homeless Families (with Jung Min Park and Stephen Metraux), Journal of Community Psychology (2011)
This study examines families’ use of behavioral health hospitalization and foster care placement prior to,...
Service Use and Costs for Persons Experiencing Chronic Homelessness in Philadelphia: A Population-Based Study (with Stephen R. Poulin, Marcella Maguire, and Stephen Metraux), Psychiatric Services (2010)
Objective: This study is the first to examine the distribution of service utilization and costs...
Ending Family Homelessness in Massachusetts: A New Approach for the Emergency Assistance Program (with Thomas Byrne) (2010)
This paper explores the current opportunity for policy reform of the Emergency Assistance (EA) system...
Using Adult Linkages Project Data for Determining Patterns and Costs of Services Use by General Relief Recipients in Los Angeles County (with Stephen Metraux) (2009)
This study examines services use and related costs for two cohorts of General Relief (GR)...
Accountability, Cost-Effectiveness, and Program Performance: Progress Since 1998 (with Kennen S. Gross, Wayne D. Parker, Barbara Poppe, and Ezra Sykes), National Symposium on Homelessness Research (2008)
The authors summarize the progress made in the past decade toward making homeless assistance programs...
Housing Affordability and Assisted Housing Policy
The Right to Housing: An Effective Means for Addressing Homelessness? (with Thomas Byrne), University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change (2011)
A number of international human rights instruments and national constitutions establish a right to housing....
Closing the Gap: Housing (un)Affordability in Philadelphia (with Amy E. Hillier), Departmental Papers (City and Regional Planning) (2003)
The Differential Impacts of Federally Assisted Housing Programs on Nearby Property Values: A Philadelphia Case Study (with Chang-Moo Lee and Susan M. Wachter), Departmental Papers (SPP) (1999)
Prior research has found negative impacts of public housing on neighborhood quality. Few studies have...
Housing Vacancy and Abandonment
Predicting Housing Abandonment with the Philadelphia Neighborhood Information System (with Amy E. Hillier, Tony E. Smith, and C. Dana Tomlin), Departmental Papers (City and Regional Planning) (2003)
Several large US cities, including Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and Philadelphia, have developed information...
Comment on James R. Cohen’s “Abandoned Housing: Exploring Lessons from Baltimore” (with Amy E. Hillier), Departmental Papers (City and Regional Planning) (2001)
For most cities, the possibility of transforming unused property into community and city assets is...
An Economic Analysis of Housing Abandonment (with Benjamin P. Scafidi, Michael H. Schill, and Susan M. Wachter), Journal of Housing Economics (1998)
Landlord abandonment of rental housing has affected many American cities since the 1960’s. Because of...
Integrated Administrative Databases and Community Indicator Systems
Connecting the Dots: The Promise of Integrated Data Systems for Policy Analysis and Systems Reform (with John Fantuzzo, Heather L. Rouse, Vicky Tam, and Jonathan Lukens), Intelligence for Social Policy (2010)
This article explores the use of integrated administrative data systems in support of policy reform...
Using Adult Linkages Project Data for Determining Patterns and Costs of Services Use by General Relief Recipients in Los Angeles County (with Stephen Metraux) (2009)
This study examines services use and related costs for two cohorts of General Relief (GR)...
Philadelphia Schoolbase (2007)
A web-based tool for creating tables, maps, charts and statistical profiles for Philadelphia's schools and...
The Development of Community Information Systems to Support Neighborhood Change (with Bradley Breuer), Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations (2007)
Integrating and Distributing Administrative Data to Support Community Change (with Amy E. Hillier), Departmental Papers (City and Regional Planning) (2005)
An increasing number of groups are demanding access to information about the physical, economic, and...
Multisystem Youth and the Transition to Adulthood
Helping L.A.'s Foster Kids Grow Up (with Byrne Thomas and Stephen Metraux), The Los Angeles Times (2012)
Young Adult Outcomes of Youth Exiting Dependent or Delinquent Care in Los Angeles County (with Thomas Byrne, Stephen Metraux, Manuel Moreno, Halil Toros, and Max Stevens) (2011)
This report investigates the young adult outcomes of youth who age-out of or otherwise exit...
Neighborhood Factors in Health, Development and Behavior
Investigating the link between gun possession and gun assault (with Charles C. Branas, Therese S. Richmond, Thomas R. Ten Have, and Douglas J. Wiebe), American Journal of Public Health (2009)
Objectives. We investigated the possible relationship between being shot in an assault and possession of...
Alcohol Consumption, Alcohol Outlets, and the Risk of Being Assaulted with a Gun (with Charles C. Branas, Therese S. Richmond, Michael R. Elliott, and Douglas J. Wiebe), Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research (2009)
Background: We conducted a population-based case-control study to better delineate the relationship between individual alcohol...
Novel Linkage of Individual and Geographic Data to Study Firearm Violence (with Charles Branas, T Richmond, and Doug Weibe), Homicide Studies (2008)
Firearm violence is the end result of a causative web of individual-level and geographic risk...
Employing Community Data to Investigate Social and Structural Dimensions of Urban Neighborhoods: An Early Childhood Education Example (with Christine P. McWayne, Paul A. McDermott, and John Fantuzzo), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2007)
The present study sought to define neighborhood context by examining relationships among data from city-level...
A Perimeter-based Clustering Index for Measuring Spatial Segregation: A Cognitive GIS Approach (with Chang Moo Lee), Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design (1998)
Many efforts have been made to develop segregation indices that incorporate spatial interaction based on...
Patterns of Homelessness
Testing a Typology of Family Homelessness Based on Patterns of Public Shelter Utilization in Four U.S. Jurisdictions: Implications for Policy and Program Planning (with Stephen Metraux, Jung Min Park, Maryanne Schretzman, and Jesse Valente), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2007)
This study tests a typology of family homelessness based on patterns of public shelter utilization...
Homeless Shelter Use and Reincarceration Following Prison Release (with Stephen Metraux), Criminology and Public Policy (2004)
This paper exmaines the incidence of and interrelationships between shelter use and reincarceration among a...
Family Dynamics, Housing, and Homelessness Among Women in New York City Shelters (with Stephen Metraux), Journal of Family Issues (1999)
This study looks at two sets of women who stayed in New York City home...
Homelessness and Public Shelter Provision in New York City (with Stephen Metraux and Susan M. Wachter), Housing and Community Development in New York City: Facing the Future (1999)
New York City, faced since the 1970s with growing numbers of homeless individuals and families,...
Applying Cluster Analysis to Test a Typology of Homelessness by Pattern of Shelter Utilization: Results from the Analysis of Administrative Data (with Randall Kuhn), Departmental Papers (SPP) (1998)
This study tests a typology of homelessness using administrative data on public shelter use in...
Structural Determinants of Homelessness
The Patterns and Costs of Services Use among Homeless Families (with Jung Min Park and Stephen Metraux), Journal of Community Psychology (2011)
This study examines families’ use of behavioral health hospitalization and foster care placement prior to,...
The Age Structure of Contemporary Homelessness: Risk Period or Cohort Effect? (with Stephen Metraux and Jay Bainbridge), Penn School of Social Policy and Practice Working Paper (2010)
This paper assesses the age composition of the sheltered homeless population and how the age...
Institutional discharges and subsequent shelter use among unaccompanied adults in New York City (with Stephen Metraux and Thomas Byrne), Journal of Community Psychology (2010)
This study empirically examines the link between homelessness and discharges from other institutions. An administrative...
The Impact of Welfare Reform on Public Shelter Utilization in Philadelphia: A Time-Series Analysis (with Stephen R. Poulin, Lorlene M. Hoyt, and Stephen Metraux), Departmental Papers (SPP) (2003)
The use of public shelters in Philadelphia was examined both before and after the implementation...
Where Homeless Families Come From: Toward a Prevention-Oriented Approach in Washington, DC (with Chang-Moo Lee) (1997)
Supportive Housing Interventions for Formerly Homeless Persons
The Patterns and Costs of Services Use among Homeless Families (with Jung Min Park and Stephen Metraux), Journal of Community Psychology (2011)
This study examines families’ use of behavioral health hospitalization and foster care placement prior to,...
The Impact of Shelter Use and Housing Placement on Mortality Hazard for Unaccompanied Adults and Adults in Family Households Entering New York City Shelters: 1990-2002 (with Stephen Metraux, Nicholas Eng, and Jay Bainbridge), Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine (2011)
This study examines mortality among New York City (NYC) homeless shelter users, assessing the relationships...
Ending Chronic Homelessness: Cost-Effective Opportunities for Interagency Collaboration (with Thomas Byrne), Penn School of Social Policy and Practice Working Paper (2010)
Faced with a difficult economic climate with high levels of unemployment and widespread home foreclosures,...
Predicting Staying In or Leaving Permanent Supportive Housing That Serves Homeless People with Serious Mental Illness (with Yin-Ling Irene Wong, Trevor R. Hadley, Steve R. Poulin, Morris R. Davis, Brian A. Cirksey, and James L. Brown), US Dept of Housing and Urban Development (2006)
The New York-New York Housing Initiative and Use of Public Shelters by Persons with Severe Mental Illness (with Stephen Metraux and Steven C. Marcus), Psychiatric Services (2003)
Objective: The study examined changes in the use of shelters in New York City by...
The Organization and Financing of Behavioral Health Services
For-Profit Versus Non-Profit Freestanding Psychiatric Inpatient Facilities: An Update (with Paul G. Stiles and Trevor R. Hadley), Administration and Policy in Mental Health (1997)
Although several studies have examined the trend toward the decreasing differentiation of non-profit from for-profit...
Before and After Deinstitutionalization: Comparing State Hospitalization Utilization, Staffing and Costs in 1949 and 1988 (with Paul G. Stiles and Trevor R. Hadley), Administration and Policy in Mental Health (1996)
The literature on deinstitutionalization (DI) and state hospitals is consistent in several areas: patient censuses...
Old and New: A Comparison of State Psychiatric Hospitals (with Paul G. Stiles and Trevor R. Hadley), Psychiatric Services (1996)
This study examined whether state hospitals in operation before deinstitutionalization still cary vestigates of older...
The Current Practice of Child and Adolescent Partial Hospitalization: Results of a National Survey (with Laurel J. Kiser and Trevor R. Hadley), Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (1995)
Objective: In 1992, the American Association for Partial Hospitalization initiated a national survey of partial...
What is a CMHC? A Comparative Analysis by Varying Definitional Criteria (with Trevor R. Hadley, Noel Mazade, and Ronald W. Manderscheid), Administration and Policy in Mental Health (1994)
Using definitions of a community mental health center (CMHC) derived from the original federal legislation,...