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Homelessness is a global challenge.

The United Nations Human Settlements Program estimates that 1.1 billion people live in inadequate housing, and the best data available suggest that more than 100 million people have no housing at all.

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Australian Homelessness Monitor 2018
Trish Hill
Edgar Liu
Cameron Parsell
Hal Pawson
Peter Saunders
This study provides an independent analysis of homelessness in Australia. It analyses changes in the scale and nature of the problem and investigates the incidence of the many social, economic and policy drivers of homelessness.  The study demonstrates how public policies, particularly housing and welfare policies, are firstly, critical drivers of homelessness in Australia, and secondly, areas that represent significant...
Understanding the Success of Chicago’s Ending Veteran Homelessness Initiative
Elizabeth Oo
This report documents the story of the Ending Veteran Homelessness Initiative (EVHI), an effort by local, regional, and federal partners to end and prevent homelessness among veterans in the City of Chicago through a coordinated, data-driven process. The first section chronicles the history of EVHI and introduces the initiative’s structure and its members. Subsequent sections characterize changes EVHI has made to the process...
The homelessness monitor: England 2018
Glen Bramley
Suzanne Fitzpatrick
Hal Pawson
Beth Watts
and Jenny Wood
The homelessness monitor is a longitudinal study providing an independent analysis of the homelessness impacts of recent economic and policy developments in England. It considers both the consequences of the post-2007 economic and housing market recession, and the subsequent recovery, and also the impact of policy changes. This seventh annual report updates our account of how homelessness stands in England in 2018, or as...
Young & Homeless 2018
Homeless Link
Young people with experiences of homelessness are one of the most vulnerable groups in society and continue to make up approximately half of the people accessing homelessness services in England. For the past seven years, Homeless Link’s national study on youth homelessness has provided crucial evidence to inform policy and practice. This sixth edition explores key trends in youth homelessness and the availability and nature...
Problems Maintaining Collaborative Approaches with Excluded Populations in a Randomised Control Trial: Lessons Learned Implementing Housing First in France
Pascal Auguier
Vincent Girard
Juilien Grard
Tim Greacen
Christian Laval
Jean Mantovani
Delphine Moreau
Pauline Rhenter
Aurelie Tinland
and Benjamin Vidaud
In 2006, a local collective combating homelessness set up an ‘experimental squat’ in an abandoned building in Marseille, France’s second-largest city. They envisioned the squat as an alternative to conventional health and social services for individuals experiencing long-term homelessness and severe psychiatric disorders. Building on what they learned from the squat, some then joined a larger coalition that succeeded in...
Advisory Committee on Homelessness – Final Report
Advisory Committee on Homelessness
This report outlines the vulnerability of indigenous and rural populations to homelessness in Canada as well as recommends improvements in responses to prevent and end homelessness. According to this report, Indigenous Peoples are 10 times more likely to access homeless emergency shelters thannon‑Indigenous people, representing approximately 30 percent of all shelter users in 2014, while only representing approximately 5...
All Mixed Up Together: Women’s Experiences of Problem Gambling, Comorbidity and Co-occurring Complex Needs
Helen Breen
Louise Holdsworth
and Elaine Nuske
While there has been minimal recent gendered gambling research conducted in Australia and elsewhere, there is some evidence to suggest that gender differences do exist in various ways including gambling motivations such as gambling used as a coping strategy to alleviate or ‘escape’ from stress and anxiety, help-seeking and prevalence of comorbidity. In this Australian qualitative study we explored the experiences and concerns...
Understanding gambling related harm: a proposed definition, conceptual framework, and taxonomy of harms
Erika Langham
Hannah Thorne
Matthew Browne
Phillip Donaldson
Judy Rose
and Matthew Rockloff
Harm from gambling is known to impact individuals, families, and communities; and these harms are not restricted to people with a gambling disorder. Currently, there is no robust and inclusive internationally agreed upon definition of gambling harm. In addition, the current landscape of gambling policy and research uses inadequate proxy measures of harm, such as problem gambling symptomology, that contribute to a limited...
Homelessness and gambling: a complex relationship
Steve Sharman
Jenny Dreyer
Luke Clark
Herietta Bowden-Jones
This poster synthesizes research conducted on homelessness and gambling. The authors conclude that gambling is predominately a cause of homelessness, although some problems develop after people find housing. 
Ageing out of place: The impact of gender and location on older Victorians in homelessness
Deb Batterham
Shelley Mallett
Ed Yates
Violet Kolar
and Trish Westmore
In 2011, Hanover Welfare Services completed a research project Ageing in What Place, which investigated the growing number of older persons presenting at homelessness services. The present study builds on this earlier phase of research by undertaking a preliminary investigation into the role that gender and location play in housing crisis and homelessness for people aged 55 and over in Victoria.
Effectiveness of interventions to reduce homelessness. A systematic review
Despite work to prevent and reduce homelessness over the last 15 years, the number of homeless persons in Norway has remained stable since the first mapping of homelessness was published in 1997. We conducted a systematic review on the effectiveness of housing programs and case management to improve housing stability and reduce homelessness among people who are homeless or at-risk of becoming homeless. The key findings show...
Preventing ‐substance abuse among street children in India: A literature review
Suresh Joshi and Narayan Sharma
The present study revealed that 10 % of the world’s children live on the streets in India and more than two third were boys. It was found that most of the street children abuse nicotine and alcohol. The major reason for the children to be on the streets was poverty and peer pressure, for substances abuse. Substance abuses damage the vital organs and respiratory, digestive, oral, facial and heart diseases were the common...
El potencial de las Estrategias Residenciales para Superar la Situación de Calle: La Experiencia Chilena
Catalina Cuadra
Ignacio Eissmann
In this article, authors analyze the potential for improvements in Chile's shared housing program, called Noche Digna. The analysis examines the program's capacity to interrupt homelessness trajectories, and the relevance of taking or not taking certain residential models as a strategy to overcome homelessness. Finally, the authors identify the most salient lessons and experiences from Noche Digna and similar programs in an...
Housing challenges for refugee-stream newcomers: research findings and their relevance for the Syrian arrivals 2015-2016
Centre Urbanization Culture Societe
This presentation focuses on refugee stream admissions to Canada, housing experiences, and research on refugee arrivals in 2015-2016.
Uganda’s Response to Street Children: Investigating the Validity and Impact of the Kamparingisa National Rehabilitation Centre (KNRC) in Working with Street Children in Uganda
Ann Bett
Martin Kabanda
Shannon Russell
Street children have become a worldwide phenomenon and often solutions seem either to be short-sighted or instituted for alternative reasons besides the welfare of children. However, the world is slowly waking to the fact that there are consequences beyond human suffering to turning a blind eye to street children. Uganda has moved forward with a plan to get children off of the streets, rehabilitated and repatriated. This plan...
An Economic Theory of Homelessness and Housing
Brendan O'Flaherty
There is good reason to suspect that changes in the housing market had something to do with the dramatic rise in the homelessness in the United States after 1980. Whether the housing market is responsible, however, remains a controversial question. Resolving this question takes two things: a theory of the housing market that includes homelessness and relates it with other measurable phenomena, and a great deal of serious...
Study reveals cost benefits in housing the homeless
Carolyn Gonzales
The University of New Mexico Institute for Social Research conducted a study for the City of Albuquerque on the cost and benefits of housing homeless people in the city. Results of the Albuquerque Heading Home Initiative reveal that it is cost-effective to house homeless people. The results of the study demonstrate that one-year after being housed, study group member costs were $615,920.49 or 31.6 percent less than costs...
National Strategies to Address Homelessness in the European Union
Eoin O'Sullivan
This presentation highlights strategies to tackle homelessness in Europe with respect to development, temporary accommodation, service delivery, access to housing, and policy and prevention strategies. 
Hacking Nonprofit Collaboration
Art Taylor
This source outlines nine considerations for nonprofits looking to maximise social impact through collaboration. 
The role of NGOs’ service delivery experience in developing relevant research agendas: experience and challenges among NGOs in Malawi
Kate Gooding
There has been growing interest in the contribution of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to international health research. One strength that NGOs may bring to research involves the potential value of service delivery experience for indicating relevant research questions, namely through their involvement in service delivery, NGO staff may be aware of frontline knowledge gaps, allowing these staff to identify questions that...