The importance of home ownership. This report, commissioned by Q Shelter, highlights how demand-side policy settings designed to lift home ownership rates over the past four decades, have in fact worsened...
The Covid-19 pandemic added an additional layer of pressure onto an already stressed housing system in Southeast Queensland (SEQ). Housing is a complex system and we argue that thinking about the separate...
Cancer is one of the most pressing global health issues, and populations with complex needs, such as people experiencing homelessness, have higher cancer incidence and mortality rates compared with the housed...
People’s experiences of homelessness are also experiences of violence and distress. Individuals experiencing homelessness are often forced into unregulated places like shelters or rough sleeping, where...
People often form strong emotional attachments with their companion animals. When this relationship is threatened by forced separation, people may take risks to their safety and wellbeing to protect and stay...
Numerous studies have highlighted the inequitable access to medical and psychiatric care that people experiencing homelessness (PEH) face, yet the surgical needs of this population are not well understood. We...
Access to housing is a recognised human right across international conventions. Yet this right is rarely legislated for within individual countries. In parallel, housing has increasingly become a much...
Fundraising events have become a dominant platform for charities in raising money to deliver services for vulnerable population groups. ‘Sleepout’ events are unique, whereby participants spend one night in...
The current study adopts a bottom-up perspective to analyse how Housing First is implemented by street-level social workers within municipal social services in the context of Sweden’s restrictive drug...
A qualitative study on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation from Bonn, Germany. Access to safe and affordable drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for all is needed to safeguard human health,...