Imagine walking through a red door. On the other side of that door, everyone you meet asks you to tell them about the hardest things you’ve ever experienced in life, again and again. They have nothing but...
This observational longitudinal cohort study examines housing status, the prevalence of a comprehensive set of individual modifiable risk factors for homelessness, and changes in the prevalence of housing...
Being homeless is broadly understood to be traumagenic. Thus, support services for individuals experiencing homelessness (such as youth refuge) are encouraged to use trauma-informed models of care. However,...
Recently, the logic of public health prevention has found a foothold in research and advocacy about homelessness. From a commonsense perspective, the prevention of a social problem like homelessness is an...
Homelessness Australia’s Homelessness and domestic and family violence: State of Response Report for International Women’s Day analyses Australian Institute of Health and Welfare data to find 45 per cent...
People in homelessness face significant health inequities, with tri-morbidity, exposure to violence, substance use- and post-traumatic stress disorder. The aim of this scoping review was to describe treatments...
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...
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...
This report distills a year of research on homelessness in America. It provides background, evidence and a point of view on some of the major drivers of America’s homelessness crisis. The purpose of this...