Research and Policy

This Index highlights that many people living on income support payments are structurally unable to afford the basics of life. The analysis was prepared by comparing data on key living costs against rates of income support. The Index considers weekly living costs by analysing three core weekly expenses, rent, transport and food.

This paper describes how the Social Impact Bonds financing mechanism underpinned the success of Aspire by promoting flexible, collaborative, outcome-focussed and data-informed responses to a challenging, multifaceted social problem.

This study conducted a 12-month ethnography in a hotel for people experiencing homelessness located in South-East Queensland, Australia. Findings highlight how homeless support practices were both enabled and constrained by the built environment.

Understanding factors that support housing stability is crucial to ensure the best outcomes for young Aboriginal children and families at a critical period in the life course.

Involvement of people with lived experience of homelessness is important in developing palliative care research. This paper begins to outline some contextual considerations for promoting involvement in a complex and intricate field of research.

Peer and lay health worker programs aim to increase access to health care and improve health outcomes for PEH by building trust and empowering community-based workers.

People experiencing homelessness have been found to have a high risk of violent crime victimisation as well as high prevalence of psychiatric disorders. It is poorly understood whether experiencing homelessness is associated with additional risks of violent offending and whether psychiatric disorders contribute to these risks. We examined the association between homelessness, psychiatric disorders, and first violence offence leading to conviction.

This paper explores the results of a study conducted in collaboration with the homelessness sector in central London and an academic team. The results highlight the presence of a high-cost, high-risk population of women who are characterised by sustained and recurrent experience of homelessness, housing exclusion, and deprivation and who make repeated and sustained use of homelessness and other services without escaping homelessness.

Multiple studies over the past several decades have shown high burden of medical disease and marked early mortality among chronically homeless adults. Many community-based organizations, policy makers, and health care providers have sought to address these individuals’ medical vulnerability and complex needs by helping them secure and maintain housing.

The health insights from concurrent air pollution and heat exposure studies are consequential when studying unhoused communities who are already overexposed to harmful environmental conditions.