• Dr. Culhane studies homelessness and housing policy. His research has been instrumental in a national shift in how society addresses homelessness, including expansions in supportive housing for people who are chronically homeless, and housing stabilization programs for people at-risk of homelessness.

• Dr. Culhane co-directs the Cartographic Modeling Laboratory (CML), which applies spatial data and spatial analysis tools to the study of how the social and built environments influence health and behavior, particularly in an urban context.

• The CML collaborates with researchers at seven of Penn’s schools, with projects as diverse as obesity prevention, gun violence, early school success and youth development.

• The CML has also played a key planning role in support of the University’s West Philadelphia initiatives.

Journal Articles

• Dennis P. Culhane, Stephen Metraux, Jung Min Park, Maryanne Schretzman, and Jesse Valente (2007) Testing a Typology of Family Homelessness Based on Patterns of Public Shelter Utilization in Four U.S. Jurisdictions: Implications for Policy and Program Planning
• Christine P. McWayne, Paul A. McDermott, John Fantuzzo, and Dennis P. Culhane (2007) Employing community data to investigate social and structural dimensions of urban neighborhoods: An early childhood education example
• Stephen Metraux and Dennis P. Culhane (2006) Recent Incarceration History Among a Sheltered Homeless Population
• Jung Min Park, Stephen Metraux, Gabriel Broadbar, and Dennis P. Culhane (2004) Child Welfare Involvement Among Children in Homeless Families
• Jung M. Park, Stephen Metraux, Gabriel Brodbar, and Dennis P. Culhane (2004) Public Shelter Admission among Young Adults with Child Welfare Histories by Type of Service and Type of Exit
• Jung Min Park, Stephen Metraux, Gabriel Broadbar, and Dennis P. Culhane (2004) Public Shelter Admission among Young Adults with Child Welfare Histories by Type of Service and Type of Exit
• Amy E. Hillier and Dennis P. Culhane (2003) Closing the Gap: Housing (un)Affordability in Philadelphia
• Amy E. Hillier, Dennis P. Culhane, Tony E. Smith, and C. Dana Tomlin (2003) Predicting Housing Abandonment with the Philadelphia Neighborhood Information System
• Dennis P. Culhane, Stephen R. Poulin, Lorlene M. Hoyt, and Stephen Metraux (2003) The Impact of Welfare Reform on Public Shelter Utilization in Philadelphia: A Time-Series Analysis
• Dennis P. Culhane, Stephen Metraux, and Trevor Hadley (2002) Public Service Reductions Associated with Placement of Homeless Persons with Severe Mental Illness in Supportive Housing
• Stephen Metraux, Dennis P. Culhane, Stacy Raphael, Matthew White, Carol Pearson, Eric Hirsch, Patricia Ferrell, Steve Rice, Barbara Ritter, and J. Stephen Cleghorn (2001) Assessing Homeless Population Size Through the Use of Emergency and Transitional Shelter Services in 1998: Results from the Analysis of Administrative Data from Nine US Jurisdictions
• Dennis P. Culhane and Amy E. Hillier (2001) Comment on James R. Cohen’s “Abandoned Housing: Exploring Lessons from Baltimore”
• Chang-Moo Lee, Dennis P. Culhane, and Susan M. Wachter (1999) The Differential Impacts of Federally Assisted Housing Programs on Nearby Property Values: A Philadelphia Case Study
• Randall Kuhn and Dennis P. Culhane (1998) Applying Cluster Analysis to Test a Typology of Homelessness by Pattern of Shelter Utilization: Results from the Analysis of Administrative Data
• Yin-Ling I. Wong, Dennis P. Culhane, and Randall Kuhn (1997) Predictors of Exit and Reentry among Family Shelter Users in New York City
• Dennis P. Culhane, Chang-Moo Lee, and Susan M. Wachter (1996) Where the Homeless Come From: A Study of the Prior Address Distribution of Families Admitted to Public Shelters in New York City and Philadelphia
• Dennis P. Culhane, Edmond F. Dejowski, Julie Ibañez, Elizabeth Needham, and Irene Macchia (1994) Public Shelter Admission Rates in Philadelphia and New York City: The Implications of Turnover for Sheltered Population Counts

Book Chapters

• Amy E. Hillier and Dennis P. Culhane (2005) Integrating and Distributing Administrative Data to Support Community Change
• Dennis P. Culhane and Stephen Metraux (1997) Where to from Here? A Policy Research Agenda Based on the Analysis of Administrative Data

Government Publications

• Jill Khadduri, Dennis P. Culhane, Mary Joel Holin, Larry Buron, Alvaro Cortes, and Stephen Poulin (2007) The Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress
• Mary Beth Shinn, Debra R. Rog, and Dennis P. Culhane (2005) Family Homelessness: Background Research Findings and Policy Options
• United States Government and Dennis P. Culhane (2004) Homeless Management Information Systems (HMIS); Data and Technical Standards Final Notice