| Date |
Reading |
Reading Topic |
| 25-Jan |
introduction: |
thinking about causes
and consequences. |
| 30-Jan |
Liebow, App. B & A.: |
case studies: evidence
for causes? |
| 1-Feb |
Rossi, Ch. 3 & 1 |
What can surveys tell us about homelessness?
|
| 6-Feb |
Rossi, Ch. 4 |
Where do the homeless sleep? (i.e., How do we
define homelessness?) |
| 8-Feb |
Rossi, Ch. 4 |
How is homelessness similar to and different from
extreme poverty? |
| 13-Feb |
Rossi, Ch. 5 |
What types of people
are most at risk of homelessness?
|
| 15-Feb |
Rossi, Ch. 6 |
Do mental illness, drugs, and alcohol cause
homelessness? |
| 20-Feb |
Rossi, Ch. 6 |
Does social isolation precede or follow from homelessness? |
| 22-Feb |
Rossi, Ch. 7 |
What is the role of housing shortages?
What are policy responses? |
| 27-Feb |
Liebow: Preface, Intro, |
How should we do research on the homeless? |
| 1-March |
Liebow Ch 1 |
What is shelter life like?
How do policy responses
reflect our knowledge of homeless types and
causes? |
| 6-March |
Liebow 2 |
Why is work important for the homeless? |
| 8-March |
Liebow 3 |
Should homelessness be the responsibility of the
person's family? |
| 13-March |
Liebow 5 & 6 |
What helps the homeless keep their humanity? |
| 15-March |
Liebow 4 & 7 |
What are problems with shelters? |
| 27-March |
Rossi & Liebow |
Review for midterm |
| 29-March |
Rossi & Liebow |
Midterm |
| 3-April |
Burt (web page): |
How do cities differ in homelessness? |
| 5-April |
Honig & Filer: |
What factors separate cities with high homelessness? |
| 10-April |
Jencks, Ch. 1-3 |
How has homelessness changed over time?
Can mental illness explain the increase in homelessness? |
| 12-April |
Jencks, Ch. 4 |
Does the crack epidemic explain homelessness? |
| 17-April |
Jencks, Ch. 5 |
What is the evidence about poverty and homelessness? |
| 19-April |
Jencks, Ch. 7 |
What about families does and does not explain homelessness? |
| 24-April |
Jencks, Ch. 6 and 8 |
How did the housing situation change? |
| 26-April |
Jencks, Ch. 9, 10 & 11 |
What solutions would work? better shelters? more subsidies? |
| 26-April |
Paper due |
| 1-May |
O'Flaherty: Ch. 6 |
How can we build a model that explains the supply of housing? |
| 3-May |
O'Flaherty: Ch. 7 |
Do the facts about income match
|
| 8-May |
O'Flaherty: 12 & 13 |
Review: mental health and drugs |
| 10-May |
O'Flaherty 10 & 15: |
public policy |
| 11-May |
Everything!: |
REVIEW 10AM |
| 15-May |
2:00 - 5:00 |
Office hours |
| 17-May |
1:30 - 3:30 |
Final exam |
