Overview
Theme: The size of the nation's urban homeless population is small relative to many other disadvantaged groups. However, the economic and social costs of resolving problems associated with urban homelessness are high and difficult to manage. During an era of national prosperity, what is preventing us from finding sustainable public policy solutions?
Goal: 1) Advance new solutions to the problems of urban homelessness as a regional action priority; 2) Reframe the debate about homelessness as a social problem- frame it in a way so that it is perceived as manageable and participants walk away with a clear sense of actions they can take to advance practical solutions; 3) Provide a framework for future research that will result in information that will be useful in the policy environment (that is, weave together what we know about policy analysis and policy development into a research framework so that academics can increase the relevancy and usefulness of the work they are doing).
Index to Conference Materials
|
