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Where will I sleep tomorrow? Housing, homelessness, and the returning prisoner

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  • Caterina Roman
  • Jeremy Travis

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This year, over 630,000 prisoners will be released from state and federal prisons across the country—more than four times as many as were released in 1980. In this article, we examine the scope of the prisoner reentry issue—what is known about the intersection of housing, homelessness, and reentry and about the barriers returning prisoners face in securing safe and affordable housing. Although the housing challenges are formidable, progress is being made on numerous fronts. We seek to frame the dynamics of the reentry housing discussion by highlighting the promising strategies that are emerging. These strategies, taken to scale, could help create a very different national policy on prisoner reentry. Ultimately, effective reentry strategies have the potential not only to reduce re‐arrest and increase public safety, but also to reduce homelessness.

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  • Caterina Roman & Jeremy Travis, 2006. "Where will I sleep tomorrow? Housing, homelessness, and the returning prisoner," Housing Policy Debate, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(2), pages 389-418.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:houspd:v:17:y:2006:i:2:p:389-418
    DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2006.9521574
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    2. Semenza, Daniel C. & Link, Nathan W., 2019. "How does reentry get under the skin? Cumulative reintegration barriers and health in a sample of recently incarcerated men," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 243(C).
    3. Ivis García, 2024. "The Value of Reentry Housing, Zoning, and “Not in My Back Yard” (NIMBY) Obstacles, and How to Overcome Them," Land, MDPI, vol. 13(3), pages 1-18, February.
    4. David J. Harding & Jeffrey D. Morenoff & Claire W. Herbert, 2013. "Home Is Hard to Find," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 647(1), pages 214-236, May.
    5. Robynn Cox, 2016. "The Effect of Private Sector Work Opportunities in Prison on Labor Market Outcomes of the Formerly Incarcerated," Journal of Labor Research, Springer, vol. 37(4), pages 412-440, December.
    6. Christopher Wildeman, 2011. "Parental Incarceration, Child Homelessness, and the Invisible Consequences of Mass Imprisonment," Working Papers 1281, Princeton University, School of Public and International Affairs, Center for Research on Child Wellbeing..
    7. Cannonier, Colin & Galloway Burke, Monica & Mitchell, Ed, 2020. "The Impact of a Reentry and Aftercare Program on Recidivism," GLO Discussion Paper Series 732, Global Labor Organization (GLO).

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