Programs & Events
How to House the Homeless
Date: Friday, November 21st 2008
On November 21, 2008 the Furman Center, in partnership with the Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies and with generous funding from the Russell Sage Foundation, invited a host of scholars and practitioners to discuss current issues and ideas in homelessness prevention.
Topics of discussion included:
• General Policies in the Low-Income Housing Market
• Policies for Assisting Homeless People with Special Needs
• Risk and Homelessness
• Homelessness and Housing Market Regulation
Presenters and Discussants:
Vicki Been, Director, NYU Furman Center and Professor of Law
Carol Caton, Director, Columbia Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies
Ingrid Gould Ellen, Co-Director, NYU Furman Center and Professor of Pubic Policy
Dan O’Flaherty, Columbia University
Jill Khadduri, Abt Associates
Edgar Olsen, University of Virginia
Keith Kinard, Newark Housing Authority
Bernard Salanie, Columbia University
Sam Tsemberis, Pathways to Housing
Robert Rosenheck, Yale University
Sherry Glied, Columbia University
Jay Bainbridge, New York City Department of Homeless Services
Sewin Chan, New York University
Lance Freeman, Columbia University
Steve Raphael, University of California at Berkeley
Roseanne Haggerty, Common Ground
Steve Malpezzi, University of Wisconsin
Materials available from the conference:
Agenda
Jay Bainbridge: Efforts to End Homelessness in New York City
Sewin Chan: Comments on Homelessness as Bad Luck by Brendan O’Flaherty
Sherry Glied: Comments on Rosenheck (and Tsemberis)
Jill Khadduri: Reducing Homelessness through Mainstream Housing Subsidy Programs and the Homeless Residential System
Stephen Malpezzi: Comments on Steven Raphael’s “Homelessness and Housing Market Regulation”
Dan O’Flaherty: Homelessness as Bad Luck: Implications for Research and Policy
Edgar Olsen: Comments on Khadduri’s Paper on Reducing Homelessness
Stephen Raphael: Homelessness and Housing Market Regulation
Robert Rosenheck: Service Models for Assisting Homeless People with Mental Health Problems: Cost-Effectiveness and Policy Relevance
Sam Tsemberis: Ending Homelessness and Supporting Recovery for People with Psychiatric Disabilities and Addiction Disorders
