Additional Resources: Family Homelessness & Poverty
Commentary (full text attached):
- Poverty Rates Rise to Al Time High, Women Hardest Hit
- The implications of the recently issued US Census report for 2009.
- http://legalmomentum.typepad.com/blog/2010/09/poverty-rates-rise-to-all-time-high-demonstrating-critical-need-to-strengthen-social-safety-net.html
- Obama vows to end homelessness in 10 years
- Summary and commentary on the 2010 federal plan to end homelessness.
- http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/06/22/96322/obama-administration-vows-to-end.html#ixzz0rgqSpwXX
- Unfair and Unwise: The TANF Financial Sanctions Epidemic
- The impact of welfare sanctions on families receiving assistance.
- http://uspoverty.change.org/blog/view/unfair_and_unwise_the_tanf_financial_sanctions_epidemic
- The Characteristics and Needs of Families Experiencing Homelessness
- Report from The National Center on Family Homelessness in 2008.
- http://www.familyhomelessness.org (link temporarily disabled)
- Low Income Mortgage, Affordable Housing & Homelessness
Reports (cover sheet attached, please visit the corresponding link for the full text):
- Opening Doors: Federal Strategic Plan to Prevent and End Homelessness 2010
- The full text of the Obama plan to address homelessness
- http://www.usich.gov/PDF/OpeningDoors_2010_FSPPreventEndHomeless.pdf
- Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009
- The most recent US Census Bureau report on poverty
- http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/p60-238.pdf
- Strategies for Preventing Homelessness: 2005
- White paper prepared by The Urban Institute for US Department of Housing and Urban Development
- http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/1000874_preventing_homelessness.pdf
