Rough Sleeping

This paper comprehensively explores the housing policies in England and Wales, the causes of rough sleeping, the implications of criminalising rough sleeping, and the nexus between human rights and criminalising homelessness.
Ecological rationalities place sweeps above dispute by framing the removal of unsheltered homeless and their belongings as necessary for protecting the environment and public health. This commentary draws from the now-matured body of literature evidencing the counterproductive and harmful tendencies of encampment sweeps.
This article illustrates several state ordinances criminalizing the homeless population’s use of encampments and proposes an international framework within an Eighth Amendment analysis
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.
Drawing on surveys and semi-structured interviews with bylaw officers, our analysis demonstrates that bylaw officers have been called upon to manage a “crisis of complaints” related to the increasing visibility of homelessness across Ontario.
This article advocates the implementation of dual-purpose individual shelters in urban areas; they should help the homeless in the cold season and also serve as temporary emergency shelters in crisis situations such as earthquakes, floods, or others.
Provides an overview analysis which highlights homelessness as a critical social problem, drawing links to labour market and housing market trends, and to social security and affordable housing policy developments.
This study investigated the effectiveness of the ‘Housing First’ approach in supporting care leavers’ transition to independent living in Malta.