Named for its proximity to the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard, “Mass. and Cass” is an informal neighborhood in Boston that is often described in the news with...
This year in the United States, approximately 500,000 people will not have their own homes to sleep in. Given a nationwide shortage of almost 188,000 shelter beds, the only option for many of these people...
This paper reflects on an interdisciplinary and method triangulation approach for digital product development. The research project "Smart Inclusivity for homeless people" (SIWo), conducted by the Ohm, is...
Youth housing and homelessness organisations are providing a framework for consideration in the design of a fit-for-purpose youth housing model. This framework provides a foundation for ongoing discussion...
Growing familiarity with health risks of loneliness and isolation underscores the importance of social connection in patients’ lived environments and communities. Deficits in social connection are linked...
This paper examines the links between place attachment and older persons’ preferences to age in place, and factors that disrupt these preferences. We use data from the 2001–2021 Household, Income and...
Community-based organizations (CBOs) provide critical services to people experiencing homelessness and played a unique role in data collection throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Although data from CBOs filled a...
Little is known about the wellbeing and aspirations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living in social housing. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples living in social housing face common...
In January 2023, Rechelle Brookes, Jemima Cummins and Linda Wang, two recent graduates and one current student from the Master of Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia where I teach,...
The objective of the paper is to conceptualise how social housing impacts the life of tenants and how it affects their social mobility. Firstly, the paper looks at defining social housing to helps us get a...