Homelessness - Rossi on gender

Sociology 498: Homelessness

Gender and Homelessness

The gender disparity is one of the two most distinctive demographic characteristics of homelessness. The gender skew challenges our causal theories of homelessness and forces us to broaden our explanations from Rossi's first, simple poverty explanation.

We make five comparisons:

To other national data to see how typical Rossi's Chicago results are.

To data on the Chicago non-homeless to see the association between gender and homelessness

To U.S. data on the formerly homeless to suggest whether gender is associated with leaving homelessness.

To U.S. data on length and type of homelessness to suggest whether gender is associated with more "severe" homelessness.

	To other national data to see how typical Rossi's Chicago results are.
	To data on the Chicago non-homeless to see the association between gender and homelessness
	To U.S. data on the formerly homeless to suggest whether gender is associated with leaving homelessness.
	To U.S. data on length and type of homelessness to suggest whether gender is associated with more "severe" homelessness.