Subject: Homelessness

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This research examined the sustainability of Canada’s At Home/Chez Soi Housing First (HF) programmes for homeless persons with mental illness 2 years after the end of the demonstration phase...

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Melissa Bird, Harmony Rhoades, John Lahey, Julie Cederbaum and Suzanne Wenzel ABSTRACT This research seeks to understand goals and the gender differences in goals among men and women who...

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Kaylene Zaretzky, Paul Flatau, Bridget Spicer, Elizabeth Conroy & Lucy Burns This research provides a significant economic argument for government intervention to break the cycle of homelessness as the...

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Existing research demonstrates that mean health care costs incurred by those experiencing homelessness are high. However, high mean health care costs mask the fact that a sizeable number of...

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Inside Housing -magazine’s report on Finnish homelessness policy and Housing First

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Achieving inclusive growth relates closely to how governments work and how policies are designed, implemented, delivered and evaluated. This publication presents an overview of country initiatives concerning inclusive growth...

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The current longitudinal study evaluated the individual, housing, and neighborhood characteristics predictive of feeling psychologically integrated within one’s neighbourhood among a population of homeless and vulnerably housed individuals. Participants...

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The emotional and affective dynamics of homelessness are an established matter of concern in geographical research. Geographers have called attention to homelessness as an embodied phenomenon and to the...

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This article compares patterns of homeless shelter use in Denmark and the USA. Combining data from homeless shelters in Denmark with population registers, we find that the prevalence of...

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Abstract Over the last years, affordable housing has become less accessible in Vienna and homelessness has remained a problem. This paper describes Housing First—a socially innovative initiative—and investigates how...