The cost of homelessness, both for the people who experience it directly and for people living alongside rising homelessness, has become increasingly difficult to ignore. Political leaders propose various solutions: public subsidies to help people pay for housing, mental health and substance use treatment, or criminal penalties for urban camping. But every year the number of people experiencing homelessness keeps going up. Is anything we are doing working? Controlled trials allow economists and other social scientists to measure the effectiveness of different options. This talk will summarize what we know from these trials about what solutions have proven effective, what we don't yet know, and where we need to learn more.

Please join us for this lecture by Dr. David Phillips, Research Professor of Economics at the University of Notre Dame and the Director of Research at the Lab for Economic Opportunity. This event is open to the public, hosted by Markets & Morality and cosponsored by the Department of Economics and Business.