Research / Reports

This study develops a generalizable mathematical programming framework for optimizing housing form and location at the spatial resolution of individual development sites, showing adaptability of the framework by finding sustainable “gentle density” housing development plans in Toronto (Canada), Houston (USA), and Perth (Australia).
This paper determines the outcomes five years post-housing for women in a Housing First cohort from Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand. Aotearoa New Zealand is unusual in that half of those experiencing homelessness are women.
This study examines perceived stressors, coping strategies, and burnout prevention mechanisms among social service workers in residential social services for people living with dementias.
The aim of this study is to determine the perceptions of social work undergraduate students about homeless people.
This article argues that legal duties of prevention, rights-based housing frameworks, scaled affordable housing, and fidelity-consistent Housing First produce the strongest, most durable results when paired with fair public-space management and non-criminalization approaches.
This systematic review examined the impact of interventions that combine housing with support services on outcomes for homeless youth (16–25) in high-income countries, identified their core components, assessed barriers and enablers to implementation, and documented outcome instruments used.
This lecture given by Mark Stephens on 20 February 2026, is about social housing, and the role that it might play in tackling Australia’s housing crisis.
While scholars have documented the punishment regime inflicted on unhoused people, less research has focused on the private citizens, often organized as mutual aid groups, who intervene to counteract—and help encampment residents survive—this regime.