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PBS NewsHour highlights a report co-authored by research associate Dennis Culhane which summarizes a multi-site study of the anticipated future of the aged homeless population, its likely impacts on health and shelter systems and resulting costs, and the potential for housing solutions.
Citations:
"More seniors are becoming homeless, and experts say the trend is likely to worsen," Hannah Grabenstein, PBS NewsHour, March 3, 2023.
Culhane D, Byrne T, Kuhn R, et al. "The Emerging Crisis of Aged Homelessness: Could Housing Solutions Be Funded by Avoidance of Excess Shelter, Hospital, and Nursing Home Costs?" Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy, 2023.
LA Times highlights a research study published in the Journal of Technology in Human Services co-authored by Dennis Culhane which uses a cohort of housing assessments taken from a mid-size county in the US and machine learning methods to train a Predictive Risk Model (PRM) that identifies clients who would experience multiple adversities in the future.
Citations:
"Black and Latino homeless people rank lower on L.A.’s housing priority list" C Lecher & M Varner, LA Times, February 28, 2023.
C I Kithulgoda, R Vaithianathan and D P Culhane. 2022. "Predictive Risk Modeling to Identify Homeless Clients at Risk for Prioritizing Services Using Routinely Collected Data" Journal of Technology in Human Services.
National Public Radio highlights a conversation involving research associate Dennis Culhane where he spoke about the best ways to address unhoused populations and how exactly does the administration plan to reduce and prevent homelessness.
Citations:
“How America Is Grappling With Homelessness.” NPR, December 22, 2022.
National Center on Homelessness among Veterans
Dana and Andrew Stone Chair in Social Policy
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Ph.D., Social Psychology, Boston College, 1990