Browsing by Subject "homelessness"
Item Austin Habitat for Humanity: Rebuilding Momentum and Trust(RGK Center, 2007) Struckman, SaraHabitat for Humanity International describes its mission: “to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.” Habitat invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together in partnership with families in need.Item Pointing Fingers: Examining The Tech Boom’S Effects On San Francisco And Austin(2019-05-01) Allen, Katherine; Ryan, JanIn Pointing Fingers: Examining the Tech Boom’s Effects on San Francisco and Austin, Allen surveys the effects that the technology driven economy has had on San Francisco, California and Austin, Texas. These effects are analyzed with two foci: increasing housing costs and the state of homelessness. After examining the effects the technology boom bas had on San Francisco, Allen moves to survey Austin with the same foci: increasing housing costs and the sate of homelessness. Ultimately, the thesis seeks to understand the differences between the two cities, given that many Austinites fear that their city will become “another San Francisco.” To summarize, Allen finds that because of the city’s significant infrastructure differences, the rate at which housing prices increased in San Francisco will not be mirrored in Austin. However, in regard to the second foci, Allen notes that if we fail to continue making strides towards curbing or ending homelessness in Austin, we may face the a similar population of homeless in Austin due to lack of affordable housing and drug addiction.Item Poverty, Homelessness, Minimum Wage & Measurement(Salem Center, 2021-05-10) Salem Center for PolicyItem Projecting COVID-19 isolation bed requirements for people experiencing homelessness(PLOS One, 2021-05) Ingle, Tanvi; Morrison, Maike; Wang, Xutong; Mercer, Timothy; Karman, Vella; Fox, Spencer J.; Meyers, Lauren AncelAs COVID-19 spreads across the United States, people experiencing homelessness (PEH) are among the most vulnerable to the virus. To mitigate transmission, municipal governments are procuring isolation facilities for PEH to utilize following possible exposure to the virus. Here we describe the framework for anticipating isolation bed demand in PEH communities that we developed to support public health planning in Austin, Texas during March2020. Using a mathematical model of COVID-19 transmission, we projected that, under no social distancing orders, a maximum of 299 (95% Confidence Interval: 223, 321) PEH may require isolation rooms in the same week. Based on these analyses, Austin Public Health finalized a lease agreement for 205 isolation rooms on March 27th 2020. As of October 7th 2020, a maximum of 130 rooms have been used on a single day, and a total of 602 PEH have used the facility. As a general rule of thumb, we expect the peak proportion of the PEH population that will require isolation to be roughly triple the projected peak daily incidence in the city. This framework can guide the provisioning of COVID-19 isolation and post-acute care facilities for high risk communities throughout the United States.Item Proposing Interventions for Disabled Americans Pushed into Incarceration and Homelessness(2023) Seyer, Caroline; Thurman, WhitneyMass incarceration and homelessness are prevalent issues in the United States, affecting hundreds of thousands of people each year. Additionally, about a quarter of Americans have at least one disability (Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2022). While there is literature that documents the relationship between disability and homelessness and disability and incarceration, research has yet to connect the pipelines that push disabled Americans into both of those systems. The purpose of this literature review, therefore, is to synthesize existing research, news articles, and advocacy information into a diagram describing the factors that push disabled Americans into incarceration and/or homelessness over the life course. I then propose points of intervention to dismantle these pipelines. Disabled people face barriers to receiving a high-quality education, are more likely to be affected by the school-to-prison pipeline, and face discrimination in employment, housing, and community involvement. Additionally, the effects of homelessness and incarceration on disabled individuals have substantial overlap in the spheres of health, employment, housing, and community involvement. These challenges compound each other across the life course and are thus very important to dismantle. The points of intervention identified in this thesis have serious implications for expanding public policy to target disabled people affected by incarceration and homelessness in this country.Item Solving Texas's Street Homelessness Problem(Salem Center, 2021-04-22) Glock, JudgeItem Using AI to Assist Those Experiencing Homelessness in Austin(Government technology, 2020-07-17) LEVINE, BENItem Water Accessibility among Homeless Individuals(2018) Fischer, Alexis