Offering one of the most robust analyses to date of the relationship between rising income inequality and rising rates of homelessness, BUSSW Assistant Professor Dr. Thomas Byrne’s new report, “A Rising Tide Drowns Unstable Boats: How Inequality Creates Homelessness,” was published in the most recent issue of “The Annals of the American Academy of Political […]
Monday, December 14, 2020 5:30pm-7:00pm Zoom online webinar REGISTER Since Governor Baker’s eviction and foreclosure moratorium expired in October 2020, individuals and families across Massachusetts are now facing the added threat of unstable housing and homelessness during the height of the pandemic. People experiencing homelessness are particularly vulnerable to the dangers of COVID-19, and many U.S. […]
Professor Thomas Byrne and colleagues explain what states’ homelessness responses during the pandemic reveal about their ability to invest in long-term housing. Originally published in The Hill: “What the pandemic taught us about the homeless – and what we shouldn’t forget,” by Thomas Byrne, Benjamin F. Henwood and Anthony W. Orlando The streets of our […]
Following his recent report on the impact of COVID-19 on the homeless population, BUSSW professor Tom Byrne and co-authors Dennis P. Culhane, Dan Treglia, & Ken Steif from the University of Pennsylvania, and Randall Kuhn from UCLA, have developed a web application based on their model to allow local communities to estimate need based on their particular local circumstances. According to the report, which […]