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Using rich and detailed data, this groundbreaking book explains why homelessness has become a crisis in America and reveals the structural conditions that underlie it. In Homelessness Is a Housing Problem, Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern seek to explain the substantial regional variation in rates of homelessness in cities across the United States. In a departure from many analytical approaches, Colburn and Aldern shift their focus from the individual experiencing homelessness to the metropolitan area. Using accessible statistical analysis, they test a range of conventional beliefs about what drives the prevalence of homelessness in a given city—including mental illness, drug use, poverty, weather, generosity of public assistance, and low-income mobility—and find that none explain the regional variation observed across the country. Instead, housing market conditions, such as the cost and availability of rental housing, offer a far more convincing account. With rigor and clarity, Homelessness Is a Housing Problem explores U.S. cities' diverse experiences with housing precarity and offers policy solutions for unique regional contexts.
Affordable housing availability and cost-burden rates for low-income and middle-income households in Austin, Texas are worse than both the national and state averages. As population growth has outpaced housing development, the subsequent rise in property value has created higher housing costs that impede the ability for households to accrue social safety net savings and meet basic needs such as food, shelter, and medical care. This report aimed to examine the history of public and private policy that impacted non-white residents’ ability to accrue wealth and achieve homeownership. In addition, this report examined current affordable housing within the city and its geospatial location in relation to coexisting social service need data within Austin zip codes. The findings of this report show that affordable housing development has primarily occurred in historically African American neighborhoods East of Highway I35. Furthermore, analysis of United Way 2-1-1 caller data of unmet social serviced need indicates high levels of unmet service need existing within these areas. In light of these findings, recommendations to improve affordable housing include: expansion of Pay-for–Success financing for creating Permanent Supportive Housing; push for legislation to create redevelopment zones as well as tax abatements for low-income home owners; funding towards the affordable housing strike fund; and expansion of wraparound services amongst affordable housing providers.
Excerpt from The Housing Problem in Texas: A Study of Physical Conditions Under Which the Other Half Lives This pamphlet is issued by the publishers of The News to supply a demand for copies of a series of articles written by George Waverley Briggs, a member of The News staff, dealing with housing systems that prevail in the leading cities of Texas, to note their deficiencies and advantages, and to suggest means of correcting present evils and preventing future complications. The series was originally published in The Galveston-Dallas News November 19-December 17. Pointing his index finger into the attentive faces of a mass meeting of Dallas men last Sunday, Dr. Charles Stelzle of New York fervently exclaimed: "I insist that you give the workingman a square deal!" Unquestionably the doctrine of the square deal is the secular creed of the American people. Founded upon the principle of "equal rights to all, special privileges to none," the Nation has unbarred its doors to the world's downtrodden and oppressed, with the invitation: "Come and find refuge here." In the American heart the milk of human kindness is not congealed. Sympathy for the poor and the lowly is an emotion universally latent and quickly stirred under impulse, though it has not borne in its practical, helpful expression the fruits of constancy. The workingman does not desire pity. His American independence revolts at paternalism. What he wants is co-operation. Ail he asks is a chance to win his way by his own thrift and industry - a chance which, when given him, becomes the embodiment of the square deal, the practical and most commendable expression of that sympathy which is latent in the American heart. It is deplorable, yet true, that this chance is often denied him. The policy of the square deal is more the professed than the practiced creed of the people, though their vaunted allegiance to it is the resonant shibboleth of their democracy. And yet their temperament, their invariable response to worthy agitation, their private charities and philanthropies, undeniably establish as true the proposition that their indifferent attitude is neither studied nor heartless, but is rather the consequence of ignorance of conditions and of unintentional neglect of them in their phantom chase of business. These National characteristics are exemplified in the people of Texas. The State has enjoyed abundant prosperity. Its population has increased rapidly under the lure of its fertile fields to the homeseeker from colder and less pleasing climes. Throughout its vast and fertile farming areas the jocund God of Plenty has filled its cup of fruitfulness. The boundless ranges of the West have made way for little farms where happy, industrious families abide, content in the joy of wholesome work and righteous living. Factories have come to its cities. Railroads have contributed to its commercial importance in the marts of the world. Big business and little business have assisted its prosperity and made of it a land of commercial and industrial richness and productiveness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.