Measuring Homelessness and Residential Stability: the Residential Time-line Follow-back Inventory

Reliable and valid longitudinal residential histories are needed to assess interventions to reduce homelessness and increase community tenure. This study examined the test-retest reliability, sensitivity to change, and concurrent validity of the Residential Time-Line Follow-Back (TLFB) Inventory, a method used to record residential histories in the Collaborative Program to Prevent Homelessness (n = 1,381). The Residential TLFB Inventory yielded temporally stable aggregate measures of duration in residential categories, and it revealed significant differences in change over time when contrasting study groups. A comparison of agency and participant data at one site. (Authors)

Publication Date: 
2007
Pages: 
29-42
Volume: 
35
Issue: 
1
Journal Name: 
Journal of Community Psychology