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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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This newsletter shares information about homelessness advocacy events and resources from experts from various regions.
  In this newsletter, IGH discusses and shares resources that can help you navigate the important intersection between homelessness and humanitarian aid and true partnership with people and communities who are most affected by homelessness.
This newsletter highlights IGH's recent efforts to drive an equitable end to global homelessness.
In our June newsletter, we discuss how Issues of land use, access, and rights intersect with homelessness and equitable prevention strategies.
In our latest newsletter, we discuss our recent trip to New York City, USA, for global homelessness advocacy with partners from around the world, how to meaningfully work alongside people with lived experience, and more.
This newsletter features resources that help practitioners deliver housing and support services during the COVID-19 pandemic.
IGH welcomes expression of interest in the IGH Vanguard Program.
  The Ruff Institute of Global Homelessness (IGH) partnered with the International Journal on Homelessness (IJOH) to celebrate the launch of its first issue. For this webinar, researchers presented their papers featured in the first issue of the journal.
With this report, HelpAge and UNHCR aim to cast light on the challenges and risks faced by older persons on the move so that actions are taken to ensure they are not left behind.
OVERVIEW To support your efforts in protecting people experiencing homelessness from the coronavirus and in response preparations, we have collected some guidance and resources from around the world. The coronavirus guidance points to the establishment of links to local health departments, increased communication, and a focus on preparedness.  We recognize that these resources are heavily sourced from the United States, so if...
This study explores the self-perception of homeless youth who are now in the recovery phase, in terms of how they are perceived by others. The research was carried out in Medellin Youth Reception House. The results of the study include the subjects' reflections on their process of re-socialization, stigmatization, and initiatives related to how they changed their lives.
In this article, authors analyze the potential for improvements in Chile's shared housing program, called Noche Digna. The analysis examines the program's capacity to interrupt homelessness trajectories, and the relevance of taking or not taking certain residential models as a strategy to overcome homelessness. Finally, the authors identify the most salient lessons and experiences from Noche Digna and similar programs in an...
Working with Street Children is intended particularly for street children educators, social educators, child rehabilitation project managers, those in charge of the law and the representatives of urban public order. It hopes to reply to the need for dialogue expressed in a questionnaire sent in 1991 to some 180 project managers throughout Africa, Latin America, and Asia. It gathers information on education and the way that it...
Human body lice (Pediculus humanus humanus) is recognized as the vector of different pathogenic bacteria as Bartonella quintana and Rickettsiaprowazekii, the etiological agents of trench fever and epidemic typhus, respectively, being these bacteria re-emerging pathogens in different countries. Poor living conditions and limited access to public services are predisposing factors to increase high prevalence of body lice...
Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most important infectious diseases globally and its occurrence among risk groups —those with HIV/AIDS, indigenous populations, and individuals living in crowded conditions and/or extreme poverty such as homeless persons all the more. Within the world morbidity and mortality burden of TB, special consideration has been recently given to disease incidence among homeless persons, not only because...
Professor Peter H. Rossi describes homelessness as not having customary and regular access to a conventional dwelling. In Colombia, this subject is regulated by the Law 1641 (2013) which defines homeless as a person that regardless of sex, race or age, makes the street his/her dwelling place, either permanently or temporarily and has broken ties with his/her family. In the same context, the relational synergies between...
The National Institute of Statistics is a public body whose objective is the preparation, supervision and coordination of national statistics. Its first precedent was the Mesa Estadística, created by Decree of November 25, 1852. The Mesa Estadística transformed into the Directorate of General Statistics, until 1953, when it became General Directorate of Statistics and Census. Forty years later the Institute took on its...
Before psychiatry emerged as a medical discipline, hospitalizing individuals with mental disorders was more of a social stigmatizing act than a therapeutic act. After the birth of the mental health disciplines, psychiatric hospitalization was legitimized and has proven to be indispensable, preventing suicides and helping individuals in need. However, despite more than a century passing since this legitimization occurred,...
Socioeconomic status (SES) is known to have a considerable influence on the development of neuropsychological functions. In particular there is strong evidence for less efficient development of prefrontal-cortex-related functions in children raised in low-SES households. “Street children” are a common feature of low SES in many low- and middle-income countries, and some researchers have suggested that the unique life...
Most researchers regard the mobilization of the most deprived as a rare case that needs further explanation. In this contribution the Brazilian National Movement of the Homeless (Movimento Nacional População Rua – MNPR) will be analysed to show mechanisms of mobilization of the most deprived. Unlike other rare cases of homeless mobilization, the movement is active beyond the local level; it has existed for almost a decade,...