The DOI matches its Crossref record; 1 of the 1 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
The Urban Homeless: Estimating Composition and Size
Abstract
Although homelessness has been recognized as a serious and growing urban social problem, scientifically acceptable methods for estimating the composition and size of the homeless population have been lacking. A new research approach to estimating the size and composition of undomiciled urban populations is presented, and its utility is illustrated through a description of the literal homeless of Chicago. The homeless in the Chicago sample are unaffiliated persons living in extreme poverty, with high levels of physical and mental disability. Homelessness is interpreted as a manifestation of extreme poverty among persons without families in housing markets with declining stocks of inexpensive dwelling units suitable for single persons.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Is homelessness a mental health problem?
(1984) · American Journal of Psychiatry · doi:10.1176/ajp.141.12.1546 · Cited by 282
Cited by
Targeted Sampling: Options for the Study of Hidden Populations
Watters, J. K., & Biernacki, P. (1989) · Social Problems · doi:10.1525/sp.1989.36.4.03a00070 · Cited by 1,516
The epidemiology of alcohol, drug, and mental disorders among homeless persons
Fischer, P. J., & Breakey, W. R. (1991) · American Psychologist · doi:10.1037/0003-066x.46.11.1115 · Cited by 511
Jail Incarceration, Homelessness, and Mental Health: A National Study
Greenberg, G. A., & Rosenheck, R. A. (2008) · Psychiatric Services · doi:10.1176/ps.2008.59.2.170 · Cited by 494
Homelessness as psychological trauma: Broadening perspectives.
Goodman, L. A., Saxe, L., & Harvey, M. (1991) · American Psychologist · doi:10.1037//0003-066x.46.11.1219 · Cited by 416
Koegel, P. (1988) · Archives of General Psychiatry · doi:10.1001/archpsyc.1988.01800360033005 · Cited by 389
Metadata
- Authors
- Rossi, P. H., Wright, J. D., Fisher, G. A., & Willis, G.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1987-03-13
- Volume
- 235
- Issue
- 4794
- Pages
- 1336-1341
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2072174355
- Cited by
- 281
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 65.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: The Urban Homeless: Estimating Composition and Size. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1126/science.2950592
- The paper
- Rossi, P. H., Wright, J. D., Fisher, G. A., & Willis, G. (1987). The Urban Homeless: Estimating Composition and Size. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.2950592
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
