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Homelessness is a global challenge.

The United Nations Human Settlements Program estimates that 1.1 billion people live in inadequate housing, and the best data available suggest that more than 100 million people have no housing at all.

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Cost Effectiveness of Eviction Prevention Programs
Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation
The objectives of this research study included documenting the costs to landlords, tenants and social services agencies resulting from eviction, as well as examining the costs and factors leading to success or failure of programs and services that help prevent evictions. The primary question addressed by the study was: How do the different approaches to eviction prevention in Canada compare to each other in terms of costs and...
The Causes of Homelessness in Later Life: Findings From a 3-Nation Study
Maureen Crane
Kathleen Byrne
Ruby Fu
Bryan Lipman
Frances Mirabelli
Alice Rota-Bartelink
Maureen Ryan
Robert Shea
Hope Watt
Anthony M. Warnes
Homelessness is an intractable problem in many affluent countries and affects people of all ages, although much research and service provision have concentrated on young adults. Since the late 1980s, a few studies have focused on older homeless people and have found that many become homeless for the first time in later life, raising questions about why this happens, the unmet support needs of older people, and how their...
Trends in Injection Drug Use Behaviors Over 10 Years Among Street Youth
Elise Roy
Jean-François Boudreau
Pascale Leclerc
Jean-François Boivin
Gaston Godin
The objectives of this study were to determine the temporal trends of initiation into injection drug use, current injection, and recent receptive sharing of injection paraphernalia among street youth. Data from two cohort studies conducted between 1995 and 2005 were combined. Recruitment was done on an ongoing basis. Interviews were performed semi-annually. Overall and annual drug injection incidence rates were calculated...
Street Careers: Homelessness, Drug Use, and Sex Work Among Young Men Who Have Sex With Men (Ymsm)
S. E. Lankenau
M. C. Clatts
D. Welle
L. A. Goldsamt
M. V. Gwadz
"Hustling," or sex work is a common means of surviving on the streets and paying for drugs among homeless youth. This article formulates the concepts of "street capital" and "street competencies" to describe how 10 young men who have sex with men (YMSM) in New York City accumulated various knowledge and skills throughout their childhood and adolescence, and later entered into homelessness and the street economy as sex workers...
Peer Relationships: a Comparison of Homeless Youth in the Usa and South Korea
Sanna J. Thompson
Jihye Kim
Holly McManus
Patrick Flynn
Hyangcho Kim
Youth homelessness is a growing global concern as both developed and developing countries are experiencing an increase in this phenomena (Karabanow, & Rains, 1997). Previous research reveals that homelessness among youth has become disturbingly common in the United States, as well as in many other countries around the world (van Wormer, 2003). Studies of youth homelessness in Canada and Guatemala (Karabanow, 2003), the...
Attachment and Sexual Health Behaviors in Homeless Youth
Margaret Taylor-Seehafer
Regina Johnson
Lynn Rew
Rachel Fouladi
Lee Land
Elizabeth Abel
The purpose of this study was to explore relationships and group differences in attachment-related constructs (social connectedness and social support) and sexual health behaviors in a sample of homeless youth. An exploratory design, this study analyzed baseline data from an ongoing intervention study. Survey data were collected by audio, computer-assisted self-interview (A-CASI) from a nonprobability sample of homeless youth...
A Primer for Beginning Rural Housing Developers
Jennifer Garner
Rural organizations play an important role in combating the effects of the recession by working to provide affordable housing for an increased number of people. Due to high need, many rural organizations without prior housing development experience may now be interested in exploring the development process. This manual is intended to serve as a starting point for those groups by providing a basic overview of the housing...