Public support for emergency shelter housing interventions concerning stigmatized populations

We examine citizen decision‐making in the context of providing access to safe housing to different noncriminal and criminal populations. More than 4,000 national online survey respondents considered different “emergency housing policy” scenarios that would affect the housing conditions of one of fiv...

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Authors: Dum, Christopher P. (Author) ; Socia, Kelly M. (Author) ; Rydberg, Jason (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Criminology & public policy
Year: 2017, Volume: 16, Issue: 3, Pages: 835-877
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Housing
Public opinion
Sex offenders
Reentry
Stigma
NIMBY
Nachbarschaft
Öffentliche Meinung
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Summary:We examine citizen decision‐making in the context of providing access to safe housing to different noncriminal and criminal populations. More than 4,000 national online survey respondents considered different “emergency housing policy” scenarios that would affect the housing conditions of one of five randomly assigned populations of varying stigma (three noncriminal, two criminal). We find that the criminal populations had the least support for helpful housing policies and the most support for harmful housing policies. Furthermore, compared with a “no cost” policy, average support levels decreased when it increased taxes for the respondent.
ISSN:1745-9133
DOI:10.1111/1745-9133.12311