Homelessness
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This article illustrates several state ordinances criminalizing the homeless population’s use of encampments and proposes an international framework within an Eighth Amendment analysis
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Little research compares the financial costs of alternative and traditional shelter models. The research team analyzed cost data for 13 alternative shelters and nine traditional congregate shelters in Portland, Oregon.
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Recently, Housing First for Youth emerged as a targeted response to youth homelessness and is presently cited as the ideal model; however, researchers have yet to synthesize the evidence on which this claim is made.
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To date, our research on homelessness, displacement, and trauma has enabled us to present the lived experiences of people—especially women, children, and girls—directly to decision-makers, and to give them a place at the table.
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In this commentary, we reflect on the experiences of two Researchers with Lived Expertise/Experience of Homelessness, and a Senior Research Associate who all worked together on a recent study.
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Thesis: This phenomenological study explores how healing and recovery are conceptualized by individuals receiving services at a transitional housing shelter in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, and examines how it aligns with Judith Herman’s trauma recovery framework.
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In this study, we show how the City of Toronto’s data practices offer standardized processes for client care, but frontline workers also engage in heuristic decision-making in their work to navigate uncertainties, client resistance to sharing information, and resource constraints.
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This study looks at locations having success in reducing homelessness, and asks how do local, county, state, and federal players, programs, and systems support reducing the number of individuals experiencing homelessness.
