Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan

Joan and Sanford Weill hall
Suite 5100
735 South State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3091

Key Issues

Homelessness Research

Explore Poverty Solutions’ research on homelessness in the journal articles, working papers, policy briefs, news releases, and ongoing research projects listed below.

Add an infographic and text

Homelessness Research Scholars

Barbara L. Brush

Carol J. and F. Edward Lake Professor of Population Health, School of Nursing

Laura Gultekin

Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Behavior and Biological Sciences, School of Nursing

Jennifer Erb-Downward

Senior Research Associate

In the Media

WXYZ 7 Detroit | Jun. 3, 2021

Researcher suggests schools need to consider a child’s housing situation before punishment

Virginia Mercury | May. 20, 2021

Homeless students slipping through the cracks during the pandemic, congressional panel told

Recognizing Trauma: Why school discipline reform needs to consider student homelessness
May 18, 2021

By Jennifer Erb-Downward and Michael Blakeslee
Lost in the Masked Shuffle and Virtual Void: Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness Amidst the Pandemic
November 1, 2020

By SchoolHouse Connection and Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan
Losing Home: Housing Instability and Availability in Detroit
May 1, 2020

By Jennifer Erb-Downward and Safiya Merchant
No Place Called Home: Student Homelessness Prevalence and Structural Correlates
October 1, 2019

By Michael Evangelist and H. Luke Shaefer
Missing School, Missing a Home
November 1, 2018

By Jennifer Erb-Downward and Payton Watt
Falling through the Cracks: Graduation and Dropout Rates among Michigan's Homeless High School Students
April 1, 2018

By Jennifer Erb-Downward
A Snapshot of Homelessness and Housing Instability in Michigan Schools
February 1, 2018

By Jennifer Erb-Downward and Michael Evangelist

News Releases

Closeup of the documents of the CARES Act

News

What the American Rescue Plan means for children experiencing homelessness

News

Poverty Solutions receives grant to develop homelessness data-to-action playbook

News

Poverty Solutions finds undercount of homeless kids in Detroit, across Michigan

Homelessness Agenda
Poverty Solutions supports several projects that aim to promote a better understanding of the causes and consequences of homelessness and identify potential points of intervention.
Improving Coordination to Reduce Service Gaps and Increase Efficacy in Child and Family Homelessness Policy and Programming The national system for preventing and addressing homelessness, known as the Continuum of Care (CoC), is not well understood and the capacity of these systems to successfully address homelessness has never been evaluated. To prevent and reduce increasing rates of child and family homelessness, we must understand: How are homeless services governed and funded across…
Breaking the Cycle: Refining the Trauma-Informed Clinical Ethnographic Narrative Intervention (CENITF) In 2016, over 9,700 family households across Michigan, accounting for 24,766 people, entered an emergency shelter due to homelessness. The majority of these households were headed by a single female with one or two children under eleven years of age. Prior research has demonstrated that more than 90% of mothers who become homeless have significant…

Key Issues

Homelessness Research Scholars

Barbara L. Brush

Laura Gultekin

Jennifer Erb-Downward

In the Media

Researcher suggests schools need to consider a child’s housing situation before punishment

Homeless students slipping through the cracks during the pandemic, congressional panel told

Publications

News Releases

What the American Rescue Plan means for children experiencing homelessness

Poverty Solutions receives grant to develop homelessness data-to-action playbook

Poverty Solutions finds undercount of homeless kids in Detroit, across Michigan

Research Projects