Rough Sleeping

In this study, we use encampment data collected by the City of Brantford and calls for service and incident data from the Brantford Police Service to determine if the emergence of encampments results in an increase in crime and disorder in the surrounding areas.
This research thesis investigates a community-oriented design approach to permanent housing in Wellington, New Zealand, prioritising community integration, well-being, and adaptability.
This study aims to identify primary contributors to homelessness and explore risk factors linked to chronic homelessness in Northern Ireland, using data spanning 2012-2022.
This study shows that, after its completion of the renovation back in 2017, those unhoused and that their stay is discouraged due to variety of measures taken.
this research explores the psychological underpinnings of the approval of hostile design measures. Hostile design measures are interventions designed to deter undesirable behaviours and specific social groups in urban areas.
The aim of this scoping review is to synthesize evidence on SIL among people with lived experience of homelessness and explore how it negatively impacts their wellbeing.
A new national housing and homelessness plan provides an opportunity to fund place-based local government homelessness prevention and early intervention activities.
Unsheltered homelessness is an increasingly prevalent phenomenon in major cities that is associated with adverse health and mortality outcomes. This creates a need for spatial estimates of population denominators for resource allocation and epidemiological studies. Our study shows that alternative data sources can contribute timely insights into the state of unsheltered homelessness throughout the year and inform the delivery of interventions to this vulnerable population.