{"id":33455,"date":"2026-07-19T09:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T13:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=33455"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:58:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:58:01","slug":"thomas-byrne","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/profile\/thomas-byrne\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Byrne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Byrne is an Associate Professor of Social Welfare Policy in the School of Social Work and the<span>\u00a0<\/span><span>Charles River Campus Advisor\u00a0<\/span>at Boston University. He believes that everyone should have a safe, stable and decent place to live\u2014and in fact, that it is a fundamental prerequisite for a fulfilling and dignified life. This conviction motivates both his scholarship and professional service. His research focuses on homelessness, housing and veterans and has been published in journals including<span>\u00a0<\/span><em>Health Affairs<\/em>,\u00a0<em>American Journal of Public Health<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Housing Policy Debate<\/em>.<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p>Outside of BU, Byrne serves as an investigator for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Center for Healthcare Outcomes &amp; Implementation Research (CHOIR) in Bedford, Mass., and at the National Center on Homelessness Among Veterans. He is also active in a number of initiatives to prevent and end homelessness in Massachusetts. He serves on the board of directors at Hearth, Inc., a Boston-based organization dedicated to eliminating homelessness among the elderly through prevention, placement and housing programs, and on the City of Boston\u2019s Mayor\u2019s Advisory Committee to End Homelessness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25745,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/33455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/33455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33467,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/33455\/revisions\/33467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/gdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}