Permanent Supportive Housing: Evaluating the Evidence for Improving Health Outcomes Among People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness

by Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, et al.

Chronic homelessness is a highly complex social problem of national importance. The problem has elicited a variety of societal and public policy responses over the years, concomitant with fluctuations in the economy and changes in the demographics of and attitudes toward poor and disenfranchised citizens. In recent decades, federal agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the philanthropic community have worked hard to develop and implement programs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309477042
• ISBN13: 9780309477048
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"