Despite the increasing prevalence of homelessness in small and mid-sized Canadian cities, research addressing this issue has been notably absent. As homelessness continues to become a more substantial problem...
This paper is part of a NSW Productivity Commission series on how to make housing more affordable and make the best use of Sydney’s infrastructure. This paper builds on the findings of the first two...
On a single night in 2023, more than 653,000 people experienced homelessness in the United States. In this overview, we highlight structural and individual risk factors that can lead to homelessness, explore...
The Hope Exchange (THE), a nonprofit in Cape Town, is transforming the lives of homeless individuals through skill development social enterprise businesses. Our team analyzed THE's barista training process,...
The importance of home ownership. This report, commissioned by Q Shelter, highlights how demand-side policy settings designed to lift home ownership rates over the past four decades, have in fact worsened...
The Covid-19 pandemic added an additional layer of pressure onto an already stressed housing system in Southeast Queensland (SEQ). Housing is a complex system and we argue that thinking about the separate...
Cancer is one of the most pressing global health issues, and populations with complex needs, such as people experiencing homelessness, have higher cancer incidence and mortality rates compared with the housed...
People’s experiences of homelessness are also experiences of violence and distress. Individuals experiencing homelessness are often forced into unregulated places like shelters or rough sleeping, where...
A qualitative study on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation from Bonn, Germany. Access to safe and affordable drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) for all is needed to safeguard human health,...
This report distills a year of research on homelessness in America. It provides background, evidence and a point of view on some of the major drivers of America’s homelessness crisis. The purpose of this...