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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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Dynamics of Evictions: Results from a Swedish Database
Cecilia von Otter
Olof Bäckman
Sten-Åke Stenberg
Carin Qvarfordt Eisenstein
Research has shown that about one quarter of people who are evicted in Europe may become homeless. However, our knowledge of the dynamics behind housing inclusion and exclusion is rather limited. This article includes results from a new database covering all judicial processes registered by the Swedish Enforcement Authority regarding evictions or threats of eviction which occurred in Sweden from 2009 to 2012. These data have...
‘Too Many Empty Homes, Too Many Homeless’ – A Novel Design and Procurement Framework for Transforming Empty Homes through Sustainable Solutions
Boris Ceranic
Graham Markwell
Angela Dean
The Retro-Tek research project investigates the potential of existing buildings in the UK contributing towards the EU 2050 CO2 target, through a sustainable retrofit programme aimed specifically at empty homes. It proposes a novel design and procurement methodology to bring empty homes back into use, integrate sustainable technologies and materials and offer them back to the market. Along with the obvious environmental...
Analysis of Socio Professional Integration for Homelessness
Narcisa Opriş
Homelessness is a phenomenon with various causes and tyrannical consequences. Reviewing the theoretical background there is a lack of national and local strategy which addresses adult homelessness, NGOs are more involved in this area being more responsible to develop strategies that prevent homelessness through social-professional integration. This study is focused on exploring the result of program social-integration...
Women and Homelessness in Spain
María Rosario
H. SánchezMorales
This work focuses on the situation of homeless women in present-day Spain. This constitutes both a social and a personal problem embedded in the dynamics of social exclusion and linked to the interplay among structural, family/relational, personal and cultural elements. Although homelessness is mainly a male phenomenon, it also affects 3,000 women, including both women living in welfare facilities for this purpose and those...
Eradicating Core Homelessness in Scotland's Four Largest Cities: Providing an Evidence Base and Guiding a Funding Framework
Mandy Littlewood
Glen Bramley
Suzanne Fitzpatrick
Jenny Wood
Social Bite commissioned Heriot-Watt University's Institute for Social Policy, Housing and Equalities Research (I-SPHERE) to conduct research to provide an evidence base for the disbursement of these funds to relevant service provider organisations in Scotland's four largest cities (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen).  A central purpose of this research was therefore to inform a 'Funding Framework' in four key (...
The State of Housing in the EU 2017
Brussels
The Housing Europe Observatory, the Research branch of Housing Europe, presents the 2017 edition of its flagship report ‘The State of Housing in the EU’, the biennial compass of Europe's housing sector. Although growth has returned to big parts of our continent, as President Juncker cheered on at his recent ‘State of the Union’ speech, this growth is leaving many behind and our societies are increasingly unequal. Similarly,...
Homelessness Prevention: Reflecting on a Year of Pioneering Welsh Legislation in Practice
Peter K. Mackie
Ian Thomas
Jennie Bibbings
Homelessness prevention has become the dominant policy paradigm for homelessness services across the developed world. However, services have emerged in a piecemeal and selective manner, often restricted to particular towns and cities, with no requirement on local authorities to intervene. Wales is the first country where the government has sought to fully reorient services towards prevention and to make services universally...
Homelessness Prevention and the Welsh Legal Duty: Lessons for International Policies
Peter K. Mackie
The paradigm shift in international homelessness policies towards a prevention focus has resulted in proven benefits to society and most importantly to individuals at risk of homelessness. Across the developed world, homelessness prevention is being pursued with vigour alongside existing homelessness interventions and yet there has been no pause for a systematic evaluation of how prevention fits alongside existing systems....
Local Authority Homelessness Prevention in England: Empowering Consumers or Denying Rights?
Hal Pawson
High profile commitments to stemming homelessness have been integral to New Labour's emphasis on promoting social inclusion since 1997. During this period official policy has favoured an increasingly assertive approach in this area as exemplified by the successful post-1998 programmes to reduce street homelessness. The period since 2002 has seen a broader ministerial drive to reduce homelessness, mainly through encouraging...
Implementing Housing First in Finland
Housing First Partner's Conference
The aim of the project is to catalyse a paradigm shift towards housing first principle in a service system for a long-term homeless people. Four finish cities are collaborated: Espoo, Helsinki, Tampere, Vantaa + several service providers from private and third sector. Projects is funded by the four cities, HDI and TEKES(The Finiish Funding Agency for Technolgy and Innivation). The Internet handbook of implementations of HF. 
The Finnish Homelessness Strategy – An International Review
Nicholas Pleace
Dennis Culhane
Riitta Granfelt
Marcus Knutagård
The review covered the whole of the programme to reduce long-term homelessness implemented during 2008–2011 and 2012–2015, Paavo I and Paavo II. The review focused on the programme as a whole as well as its different aspects from the point of view of implementing the Housing First model in Finnish society. The review report described work on homelessness done in the United Kingdom, Sweden and the USA, focusing particularly on...
Deinstitutionalization and Schizophrenia in Finland II: Discharged Patients and Their Psychosocial Functioning
Teija Honkonen
Soile Saarinen
Raimo K.R. Salokangas
Three representative cohorts of schizophrenia patients deinstitutionalized from psychiatric hospitals in 1982, 1986, and 1990 were followed up for 3 years in Finland. Patients of the last cohort were older, more disturbed, and had been ill for a longer time than those discharged at the beginning of the 1980s. Despite this, the mortality of patients deinstitutionalized in 1990 did not increase, and their psychosocial...
Gov.UK: Homelessness
Published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, UK.Gov brings together all documents relating to homelessness and rough sleeping statistics in the UK. This collection contains statistics and information related to: Statutory homelessness and prevention and relief Statutory homelessness Homelessness prevention and relief Rough sleeping Live tables Copies of previously published statutory homelessness...
Search Results Instituto Nacional de Estadistica / Spanish Statistical Office
The National Statistics Institute is a legally independent administrative Autonomous institution assigned to the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitivity via the Secretary of State for the Economy and Business Support. It is basically governed by 12/1989 of 9 May, Law on the Public Statistical Function that regulates Statistics activity for state purposes which is the exclusive competence of the State and by the...
Crisis Homelessness Knowledge Hub
Crisis is a leading source for knowledge on homelessness in the UK. Is homelessness knowledge hub houses research about homelessness trends, the causes of homelessness, and its impacts, including: Homelessness Monitor, a longitudinal study providing an independent analysis of the homelessness impacts of recent economic and policy developments in the UK, Research into how the welfare system impacts on homelessness, Analysis...
European Federation of National Organisations working with the Homeless
FEANTSA is the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless. We are the only European NGO focusing exclusively on the fight against homelessness. Our ultimate goal is an end to homelessness in Europe. Established in 1989, FEANTSA brings together non-profit services that support homeless people in Europe. We have over 130 member organisations from 30 countries, including 28 Member States. Most are...
Najpierw mieszkanie / Housing First: Evidence-Based Advocacy
The project “Housing First – Evidence based Advocacy” (HFEA) offered sustainable evidenced-based advocacy for a change in attitudes towards support systems for severely excluded people who live ‘in the streets’ and do not use any social services. Evidence of the problem was collected through desk research based on data of accumulated by those who provide support to this group (extent of the problem, real cost of the problem,...
Resilience Enhancing Psychosocial Programmes For Youth in Different Cultural Contexts
Robert Henley
This article takes a first step towards developing a resilience assessment scale for use by development organisations offering services to youth and young adults in different cultural contexts. The purpose of a resilience assessment scale would be to assess effectiveness of services in enhancing competencies of youth in managing and adapting to adversities they experience. An in‐depth conceptualisation of individual...
Associations Of Homelessness and Residential Mobility with Length of Stay After Acute Psychiatric Admission
Alex D Tulloch
Mizanur R Khondoker
Paul Fearon
Anthony S David
A small number of patient-level variables have replicated associations with the length of stay (LOS) of psychiatric inpatients. Although need for housing has often been identified as a cause of delayed discharge, there has been little research into the associations between LOS and homelessness and residential mobility (moving to a new home), or the magnitude of these associations compared to other exposures. This study found...
Homelessness in a Scandinavian welfare state: The risk of shelter use in the Danish adult population
Lars Benjaminsen
This article analyses the risk of homelessness in the Danish adult population. The study is based on individual, administrative micro-data for about 4.15 million Danes who were 18 years or older on 1 January 2002. Homelessness is measured by shelter use from 2002 to 2011. Data also cover civil status, immigration background, education, employment, income, mental illness, drug and alcohol abuse, and previous imprisonment over...