{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Policy Crimes","title":"The Cost of Homelessness in America | Dr. Dennis Culhane","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3382,"description":"Homelessness is one of the most visible and urgent policy challenges of our time. But what if the way we respond to it — through shelters, emergency rooms, and jails — is more expensive than simply providing stable housing?\nIn this first season of Policy Crimes, we’re investigating the Cost of Homelessness. And in this pilot episode we talk to Dr. Dennis Culhane, one of the world’s leading homelessness researchers who has laid the foundations of “cost of homelessness” studies.\nGet extras and support the show: https://thepublicationcoop.substack.com\nGuest: Dr. Dennis Culhane is Professor of Social Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. His groundbreaking research has been cited in thousands of studies and has influenced homelessness policy at every level of government — as well as inspiring Malcolm Gladwell’s article in the New Yorker, Million Dollar Murray, helping to popularize the idea of the “cost of homelessness”.\n\nTopics Covered:\nThe staggering public costs of leaving people unhoused\nHow supportive housing programs for veterans, families, and the chronically homeless in the US have saved money and improved lives\nWhy governments often fail to account for savings across departments, and over time\nStudies referenced:\nPublic shelter admission rates in Philadelphia and New York City: The implications of turnover for sheltered population counts (1994)\nApplying cluster analysis to test a typology of homelessness by pattern of shelter utilization: results from the analysis of administrative data (1998)\nPublic Service Reductions Associated with Placement of Homeless Persons with Severe Mental Illness in Supportive Housing (2002)\nNew Perspectives on Community-Level Determinants of Homelessness (2012)\nProduction:\nProducers: Tristan Markle, Lina Moskaleva, and CJ Tremblay\nSound and original music: Matthew Hayter, matthewhaytermusic.com\nThis podcast is a project of The Publication Cooperative\nIf you have thoughts, feedback, or ideas, you can email us at...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/-qFAzt9KD_NLQj8vmAK6B_j6BnOIdoMW8aFnoeggW7Y/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85NDRh/Y2U1MDcxZDhiZmI2/ZjYyNjVjNmEzMDJl/MDQyYi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}