Rough Sleeping

The present study documents evidence from the first study to explore the perceptions of participants regarding sleepout events, including staff from housing and homelessness services, and people with lived experienced of sleeping on the street.
A dilemma arises for social workers when the restrictive drug policy requires them to actively counter clients’ drug use, while the rights-based philosophy of Housing First urges them to emphasise clients’ choice and control.
People experiencing homelessness largely lack available, accessible, affordable, acceptable and safe WASH (Water Sanitation & Hygiene).
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.
Using the cognitive appraisal theory of coping and the self‐determination theory of motivation, we examined the shared variance of motivational orientations, attachment relationships, and gender on adaptive and maladaptive coping among youth experiencing homelessness.
This study examines an Australian organisation’s efforts to collaboratively and systematically overcome these challenges by bringing together government, community and service practitioners from multiple sectors in their delivery of an assertive outreach programme.

This year in the United States, approximately 500,000 people will not have their own homes to sleep in. Given a…

The way people source, prepare, and consume food is deeply interconnected with social practice. Drawing on theories of everyday life…