Several years ago I was working on the homeless population in metro Boston. Since then some interesting work has been done on the Decennial Census, ACS and HUD data. Here are two papers from earlier this year:
Brian Glassman is the Poverty Branch Chief. Here is an article and white paper from February
https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2024/02/living-in-shelters.html
Paper:
https://www2.census.gov/library/working-papers/2024/demo/sehsd-wp2024-03.pdf
That paper has a reference:
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w30163/w30163.pdf
Happy Holidays to everybody and spend some time thinking about people who are spending their holidays in shelters.
Dave Dorer