Suchergebnisse

Introduction and history of veteran homelessness / Jack Tsai -- Epidemiology of homelessness among veterans / Emily Brignone, Jamison Fargo, and Dennis Culhane -- Mental illness and substance use disorders among homeless veterans / Sonya Gabrielian, Ashton Gore, Lillian Gelberg, and Jack Tsai -- Primary care for homeless veterans / Thomas P. O'Toole -- Supported housing : twenty-five years of the housing and urban development-veterans affairs (HUD-VAS) program / Maria O'Connell and Robert A. Rosenheck -- Criminal justice issues among homeless veterans / Jessica Blue-Howells, Christine Timko, Sean Clark, and Andrea K. Finlay -- Homelessness and money management in military veterans / Eric Elbogen -- Unique considerations for homeless female veterans / Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, Thomas H. Byrne, and Melissa E. Dichter -- Homeless risk among Iraq and Afghanistan veterans / Steve Metraux -- Aging and mortality in homeless veterans / John A. Schinka and Thomas H. Byrne -- Homeless veterans and use of information technology / Keith McInnes and Sarah L. Cutrona

'Homelessness Among U.S. Veterans' synthesizes the new glut of research on veteran homelessness - geographic trends, root causes, effective and ineffective interventions to mitigate it - in a format that provides a needed reference as this public health fight continues to be fought. Codifying the data and research from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) campaign to end veteran homelessness, psychologist Jack Tsai links disparate lines of research to produce an advanced and elegant resource on a defining social issue of our time.

Purpose
This paper aims to understand landlords' attitudes toward applicants with histories of sex offenses and landlords' willingness to broaden eligibility criteria for tenancy.


Design/methodology/approach
A convenience sample of 50 landlords in Connecticut were interviewed. The content of interviews was analyzed to examine how often a landlord would be open to renting to individuals on the sex offender registry and what conditions affect their decisions.


Findings
In total, 44% of landlords would not rent to adults with histories of sex offenses under any circumstance, but 8% of landlords reported they would rent to such individuals and an additional 36% of landlords were open to it with a high threshold for other indicators of good tenancy such as stable housing history, good credit and timely rental payments.


Practical implications
These findings not only illustrate the real-world challenges in finding housing for adults with histories of sex offenses but also highlight opportunities in working with landlords.


Originality/value
There has been little examination of housing adults with sex offenders from the perspective of landlords, which is important to understand to address this difficult and sensitive issue.