Homelessness

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 status and these risk factors among initially homeless people from Amsterdam over a period of 5.5 years.
Support services for individuals experiencing homelessness are encouraged to use trauma-informed models of care. This paper outlines a trauma-aware framework used for nearly a decade within a youth refuge located in Melbourne, Australia.
In this article, we probe the ethical, empirical, and political dimensions of state-driven responses to the COVID-19 public health crisis, surfacing some of the ways these interventions posed problems for people who are homeless and experience intersecting health and socio-political disparities.
Homelessness Australia’s Homelessness and domestic and family violence: State of Response Report analyses Australian Institute of Health and Welfare data to find 45 per cent of women and girls seeking homelessness assistance do so due to family and domestic violence.
The aim of this scoping review was to describe treatments for trauma-related conditions for persons in homelessness.
Due to shelter shortages, Australia is using backpacker hostels and boarding houses to accommodate people experiencing homelessness, but how violence manifests in these settings is not well understood.
The present study documents evidence from the first study to explore the perceptions of participants regarding sleepout events, including staff from housing and homelessness services, and people with lived experienced of sleeping on the street.
A dilemma arises for social workers when the restrictive drug policy requires them to actively counter clients’ drug use, while the rights-based philosophy of Housing First urges them to emphasise clients’ choice and control.