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Abstract
This article offers a gender perspective on homelessness concerning residential origins. Data were obtained through the 2005 homelessness survey in Miami-Dade County, Florida. The residential origins of homeless women are more widespread and less concentrated in the neighborhoods of high poverty than those of homeless men. Areas with lack of low-rent housing units are at greatest risk of generating homeless men and women. The rate of residential origins of homeless men increases with the proportion of Hispanics and African Americans, particularly those living below poverty level. Areas with a high proportion of female-headed households with young children and unemployed females are strongly significant in producing more homeless women. Planners should take into account a geographic and population-targeted strategy in designing homelessness prevention interventions.
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The steady expansion of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's McKinney-Vento program spending.
A similar method of joining several census tracts was also conducted by Archer et al. (1996). They geocoded single-family home sales in Miami-Dade County, Florida and an adequate number of sales did not occur within a large number of the census tracts.
A detailed description of these statistical measures can be found in Levine (Citation2004).
A subfamily is either a couple with our without their children or a single parent with one or more his/her own children.
Ihlanfeldt (Citation1999) defines the geography of opportunity as the individuals' opportunities, and life outcomes are affected where they live.