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Livelihood Impacts of Displacement and Resettlement on Informal Households - A case study from Kigali, Rwanda

Alice Nikuze

Richard Sliuzas

Johannes Flacke

Martin van Maarseveen

Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are undergoing massive socio-spatial transformations. Many old inner-city neighborhoods are being demolished to give way to modern commercial and residential developments, and generally, to a more modern living environment. These ambitions often lead to displacement and resettlement projects that affect the livelihoods of millions of people, including many from informal settlements. Given the...

Homelessness Prevention: Reflecting on a year of pioneering Welsh legislation in practice

Peter Mackie

Ian Thomas

Jennie Bibbings

Homelessness prevention has become the dominant policy paradigm for homelessness services across the developed world. However, services have emerged in a piecemeal and selective manner, often restricted to particular towns and cities, with no requirement on local authorities to intervene. Wales is believed to be the first country where the government has sought to fully reorient services towards prevention and to make...

Young Families in the Homeless Crisis: Challenges and Solutions

Sharon Lambert

Daniel O’Callaghan

Owen Jump

The purpose of this study is to understand the housing and support needs of young parents (aged 18–24 years) whose first step away from home of origin leads to experiencing homelessness and being accommodated in emergency accommodation.

Homelessness and Natural Disasters: The Role of Community Service Organisations

Samuel Brookfield

Lisa Fitzgerald

With an increased number of natural disasters occurring in different parts of the world, we see greater displacement and homelessness of individuals and communities. This resource explores the role of community service organizations in supporting affected individuals and communities.

The 2018 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) releases the Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (AHAR) in two parts. Part 1 provides Point-In-Time (PIT) estimates, offering a snapshot of homelessness—both sheltered and unsheltered— on a single night. The one-night counts are conducted during the last 10 days of January each year. The PIT counts also provide an estimate of the number of people experiencing...

Review of the Housing Policies and Programmes in Nigeria

Aminu Bello

This research paper reviews housing policies and programs in Nigeria. The recorded history of formal intervention into the housing sector in Nigeria dates back to the colonial administration, after the outbreak of the bubonic plaque of 1928 in Lagos. This necessitated the establishment of the Lagos Executive Development Board (LEDB), signifying the beginning of Nigerian public housing programs intervention during the...

Fourth Overview of Housing Exclusion in Europe

With this 4th report on homelessness and housing exclusion, FEANTSA and the Abbé Pierre Foundation ask: what is meant with "European cohesion” when another Europe, deprived of a home or even a shelter, is being left behind? This report explores the state of emergency housing in Europe, in order to attract the attention of all decision-making bodies in Europe on the overcrowding, precariousness and inadequacy our shelter...

Systems Planning to Prevent and End Homelessness: Community Progress and Priorities Across Canada

The Systems Planning Collective is led by A Way Home Canada, Canadian Observatory on Homelessness and Turner Strategies and is dedicated to helping communities and governments to prevent and end all forms of homelessness in Canada by supporting evidence-based systems planning, capacity building and technical assistance. In order to support communities in setting and reaching their goals for preventing and ending homelessness...

Homelessness in America: Focus on Chronic Homelessness Among People With Disabilities

In their Homelessness in America series, The United States Interagency on Council on Homelessness summarizes data and research about specific subpopulations to help inform the work we must do, together, to end homelessness. Here, they focus on people with disabilities who experience chronic homelessness, who make up 24% of adults experiencing homelessness and 5% of families.

Financing, Land and Organizational Capacity: Affordable Housing Development

Ayda Agha

Konrad Czechowski

Housing is a human right, enshrined in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, signed and ratified by Canada. And yet, many Canadians do not have access to housing they need at a cost they can afford. Executing affordable housing is contingent on three pillars: money to finance, land to build, and organizational capacity to action. As part of the CHRA Congress Session Series 2018, this paper...

Harmonisation of Definitions of Homelessness for UK Official Statistics: A Feasibility Report

GSS Harmonisation Team

Homelessness statistics differ across the countries of the UK because homelessness and housing are addressed through local jurisdictions. Homelessness data is often collected through administrative systems which were built using definitions based on each country’s legislation, and so data are not currently comparable. This report investigates the feasibility of harmonizing UK definitions of homelessness and evaluates methods...

Home for Good: the role of floating support in ending rough sleeping

St. Mungo's

Floating support is provided in someone’s home, and helps them to manage their tenancy. People are linked up to a caseworker who will work with them to come up with a personalized plan. This research found that there has been a dramatic reduction in funding for these services over the past five years. St. Mungo's Home for Good campaign is calling on the government to put an end to rough sleeping by ensuring that everyone gets...

Shelters for the Homeless in India

Indu Prakash Singh

This brief research paper gives an overview of shelters for people experiencing homelessness in India. It explores data for big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, and others. The paper also gives recommendations on housing affordability approaches.

The Homelessness Monitor: Scotland 2019

The homelessness monitor is a longitudinal study providing an independent analysis of the impact of recent economic and policy developments on homelessness across the UK. This year’s Scotland Monitor comes at a pivotal moment for homelessness policy and practice in Scotland. It also highlights emerging trends and forecasts some of the likely future changes, identifying the developments likely to have the most significant...

Project Inclusion: Confronting Anti-Homeless and Anti-Substance User Stigma in British Columbia

Darcie Bennett

DJ Larkin

Project Inclusion is a comprehensive study into the ways in which specific laws and policies in policing, health care, and the court system directly undermine the health and safety of people who are homeless and living with substance use issues by trapping them in a cycle of criminalization. Pivot traveled to municipalities across British Columbia to hear directly from those affected and has gathered insight into how local...

Second Right to Housing Report: The Right to Housing in Comparative Perspective

Mercy Law Resource Centre

This report offers a comparative perspective on the right to housing through the legal systems of Finland, Scotland, France, and South Africa. The report engages with arguments in Irish political discourse over legal protection of the right to housing and offers a comparative perspective on the principled and practical concerns raised by proponents and opponents of a right to housing. The comparative analysis highlights a ...

Veterans and Homelessness

Libby Perl

This research addresses the issue of veterans in general and veterans experiencing homelessness keeping in mind the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. It looks at various programs created to serve veterans experiencing homelessness by Congress of which most of them are funded through the Veterans Health Administration of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In November 2009, the VA announced a plan to end homelessness within five...

Housing First in Aotearoa New Zealand: Challenges and Future Directions

Sho Isogai

This article discusses the challenges of implementing the Housing First model in New Zealand and provides recommendations and future directions. In Aotearoa, there is a movement towards implementing the HF approach to house people with chronic homelessness in many regions and has been implemented by government-supported agencies as part of a strategy to end homelessness in local communities. Housing First programs were...

Alone Without A Home: A national review of state laws affecting unaccompanied youth

National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty

This report reviews the status of current law in 13 key issue areas that affect the lives and future prospects of unaccompanied youth experiencing homelessness in all 50 U.S. states and six territories (unless otherwise noted). The report offers an overview of the range of approaches taken by states since the last update in 2012 and the relative prevalence of these approaches, revealing significant differences from state to...

Homelessness in 2030: Essays on possible futures

Volker Busch-Geertsema

This is a collection of essays that includes a wide range of scenarios: from the optimistic to the dystopian, from the pragmatic to the idealistic, and many more in between. The idea of this book is to distill the wisdom needed to end homelessness from all the knowledge the leading researchers have gained from their extensive work. The collection of essays includes a wide range of scenarios: from the optimistic to the...

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