Homelessness

This research project examines the effectiveness of Australia’s supported accommodation services in meeting the needs of unaccompanied children and young people aged 12–24. It proposes principles to guide policy and practice toward a better system.
This report looks at whether cohousing, built on collaboration, shared living, and resident participation, can be adapted as an affordable and inclusive form of housing – one that could potentially help prevent homelessness and social exclusion.
In this commentary, we propose several strategies for improving the diagnosis and management of skin conditions among people experiencing homelessness.
This scoping review aimed to map existing interventions designed to support the well-being of frontline workers in the homelessness sector, highlighting their characteristics, objectives, and outcomes. It provides a comprehensive overview of strategies to support frontline workers serving people experiencing homelessness.
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.
Using thematic analysis, this study reveals how systemic exclusion, invisibility, and trauma shape the educational experiences of precariously housed youth. By mobilizing cultural and critical pedagogies, the study argues that schools, if properly equipped, can act as upstream prevention spaces.
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.