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The Instabilities of Housing Stability Plus: Looking Forward From Year One - $1.00 This brochure examines New York City's new rental subsidy program for homeless families. Through the hypothetical story of Liza, a young mother of two, the brochure illustrates the various scenarios facing homeless families and the potential outcomes and challenges of Housing Stability Plus (HSP).

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The Cost of Good Intentions: Gentrification and Homelessness in Upper Manhattan - $1.00 Examining indicators of income, education, rents, and housing values, this report shows that low-income families in upper Manhattan are particularly at risk of becoming homeless due to neighborhood changes.

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A Tale of Two Counties: Family Homelessness in Connecticut - $1.00 Looking at Fairfield and Hartford counties it becomes clear that without both low cost housing and social services homeless families will continue to languish in a cycle of poverty.

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Children Having Children: Teen Pregnancy and Homelessness in New York City - $1.00 While teen mothers comprise only 5% of the country as a whole they make up half of the homeless family population. An astonishingly high number of these girls and women do not know about birth control, much less how to adequately provide for a family. These young mothers need guidance and support if they are to ensure a better life for their children.

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Miles To Go: The Flip Side of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act - $1.00 McKinney-Vento legislation marked a huge advance in the effort to protect and nurture homeless children across America. However, one unintended downside in New York City is the remarkably long commute times it forces on young children who choose to remain in their original schools even after they are placed in shelters elsewhere.

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What New Jersey Needs to Know About Family Homelessness - $1.00 Homeless families in the Garden State are no different from those in the Big Apple: they need comprehensive services and community support to get back on their feet and to begin a life of independence.

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The Hidden Migration: Why New York City Shelters are Overflowing with Families - $1.00 Another look at the connection between foster care and family homelessness, this report reveals the disturbing consequence of decreased foster care in New York City.

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Back to the Future: The Brownstone and FutureLink After School Programs for Homeless Children - $1.00 Education offers the best road out of a seemingly hopeless situation for homeless children. Yet it is also the first sacrifice these children make, as their continual mobility forces them to endure numerous school transfers and catch up after extended periods of absence. Specialized after-school programs tailored to meet the multiple needs of homeless children can have a tremendous positive effect by providing examples of stability and strength, encouraging self-worth, and teaching badly needed skills.

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A Shelter is Not a Home... Or is it? - $1.00 Looking at the growing shortage of affordable rental housing in New York City, it becomes clear that for many homeless families, shelters represent the only real low-cost housing available.

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D�j� Vu: Family Homelessness in New York City - $1.00 This report provides a general overview of the situation facing homeless families and those who serve them in New York City, and reveals how little has changed in the last decade.

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The Other America: Homeless Families in the Shadow of a New Economy-Family Homelessness in Kentucky, Tennessee and the Carolinas - $1.00 From a study commissioned by the Volunteers of America, this report provides a general description of homeless families, their demographic make-up, personal histories, and regional responses in three different parts of the country.

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Multiple Families: Multiplying Problems: A First Look at the Father's of Homeless Children - $1.00 This discussion of the men in homeless children's lives reveals a disturbing trend of detachment, hardship and further instability.

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A Welfare Reform-Foster Care-Homelessness Connection? The Story of "Lag Families" and "Limbo Children" in San Diego - $1.00 This analysis of data from San Diego shelters exposes a troubling phenomenon of parents losing their children to foster care as the result of a reduction in their welfare benefits.

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Inside the Beltway: The State of Homeless Children in Washington, D.C. - $1.00 This study provides a basic demographic profile of homeless families in the DC metro area and the specific challenges they face on the road to independence.

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Up the Down Staircase: A Look at Family Homelessness in New Jersey - $1.00 The combined effect of changes in employment and housing markets and welfare reform resulted in tragic outcomes for low-income families in Newark, NJ.

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Homeless Families Today: Our Challenge Tomorrow - $1.00 A regional focus on New York City's tri-state area reveals a demographic profile of homeless families as well as their vastly inadequate opportunities for education, housing and employment possibilities. The result: record numbers of families are seeking shelter every night.

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Day to Day...Parent to Child: The Future of Violence Among Homeless Children in America - $1.00 The vast majority of homeless mothers have experienced domestic violence either as children or adults. Their children are very likely to have witnessed or been the victims of violence as well. Shelters must become places where families learn to cope with trauma and replace the pain and frustration of violence with self-investment.

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A Trail of Tears� Trapped in a Cycle of Violence and Homelessness - $1.00 This informational pamphlet provides an overview of the myriad issues victims of domestic abuse face as well as the special obstacles that homeless families who have experienced violence must overcome on the road to recovery.

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Homelessness: The Foster Care Connection - $1.00 The connection between homelessness and foster care is undeniable. A high percentage of homeless mothers are themselves the product of foster care. The Family Crisis Nursery, a unique and innovative program, was designed to help these mothers keep their children out of foster care and keep their families together.

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For Whom the Bell Tolls: The Institutionalization of Homeless Families in America - $1.00 Examining institutional entrenchment among homeless families, the Institute demonstrates the possible benefits of breaking this cycle of poverty with investment in these families' futures through education and family preservation.

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Common Sense: Why Jobs and Training Alone Won't End Welfare for Homeless Families in America - $1.00 This report suggests that homeless families need more than vocational training. Homeless mothers lack the basic skills necessary to obtain and maintain gainful employment, and require a supportive, educational environment to succeed in the future.

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The Dollars and Sense of Welfare: Why Work Alone Won�t Work - $1.00 This informational pamphlet provides a nuts and bolts analysis of welfare reform's financial reality.

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The Age of Confusion: Why So Many Teens are Getting Pregnant, Turning to Welfare, and Ending Up Homeless - $1.00 Even though the majority of homeless mothers say they plan to use birth control, the grim reality is that only a slim minority actually follows through on that intention. These mothers need more than awareness, they need proactive family planning, support and education.

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A Tale of Two Nations: The Creation of Poverty Nomads - $1.00 This report details how in a decade, America's poverty stricken are on average younger, less educated, with less work experience, and endure higher mobility. In other words, these families need more support and education in order to get back on their feet than their counterparts did ten years before.

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Job Readiness: Crossing the Threshold from Homelessness to Employment - $1.00 To effectively serve homeless families, job training programs must customize their services to address the specific problems these families face. Programs must first incorporate the crucial pre-training components of counseling, social services, and education in order to teach homeless heads of household the skills they need for employment.

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Access to Success: Meeting the Educational Needs of Homeless Children - $1.00 An underlying tenet in the struggle against homelessness is that it is more than a simple housing issue. In fact it is an education issue, a children's issue, and a family issue.

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The American Family Myth: Every Child at Risk - $1.00 Today one in every four children is born to a single mother. One third of those mothers are teenagers. While the erosion of the traditional family structure is hardly limited to the nation's poorest families, it does have the most serious implications for them, as it translates into even greater instability for homeless children.

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The New Poverty: A Generation of Homeless Families - $1.00 The health and stability of tomorrow's urban America can be foretold by the status of its children today. As the number of children living below the poverty line continues to increase, it becomes increasingly important to fight the devastating effects of poverty with education and comprehensive social services.