Reentry and Homelessness: Alternatives to Recidivism

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The cyclical relationship between incarceration and homelessness is driven by limited financial and housing resources and by punitive public policies that affect homeless people and people leaving jails and prisons and reentering their communities. Advocacy is needed to stop criminalizing homelessness, change public housing policies from automatically excluding individuals with criminal records, allow soon-to-be-released prisoners to apply for benefits through prerelease eligibility agreements, develop affordable housing on surplus federal real property and military base property, and enact legislation to improve reentry services.

By Maria Foscarinis and Rebecca K. Troth From November - December 2005