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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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PATH Facts 2000 - 2005

Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) 2000 - 2005 Performance Data

PATH Facts 2000 - 2005

Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) 2000 - 2005 Performance Data

PATH Facts 2000 - 2005

Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) 2000 - 2005 Performance Data

PATH Facts 2000 - 2005

Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) 2000 - 2005 Performance Data

PATH Facts 2000 - 2005

Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) 2000 - 2005 Performance Data

PATH Facts 2000 - 2005

Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness (PATH) 2000 - 2005 Performance Data

Practical Skills for Front-Line Workers Working With Adults Affected By Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Specially Designed for Those Working With People Who Are Homeless Or at Risk of Homelessness

BonnieL Dinning

Andrea Podruski

This manual is designed to help people working with those who are homeless and who are showing the same signs as someone who is affected by FASD. Whether the person you're working with has been diagnosed as affected by FASD or not, the manual will be helpful to you. In fact, participants in our workshop have found that it is helpful in working with adults with cognitive and developmental challenges that come from other...

Research Into Urban Aboriginal Homelessness: Winnipeg and Regina

This research is a journey into Aboriginal street culture, where the homeless people themselves serve as guides. Although sad, sometimes even shocking, their stories shed light, and hope, on an issue long ignored in Canadian society.

A Survey of Psychosocial Characteristics of Homeless Families

Seeking to identify the psychosocial characteristics of homeless families, 19 mothers of 50 children ages 2-15 living in a hotel for the homeless in Birmingham, England, completed a semistructured interview, the General Health Questionnaire, & the Child Behavior Checklist within a week after admission. The majority of families (74%) had become homeless because of domestic violence. Problems found in both mothers &...

Suicidal Behavior and Sexual/Physical Abuse Among Street Youth

Starley B. Shade

Robert E. Booth

John K. Watters

This study examined the relationship between home life risk factors and suicide attempts among homeless and runaway street youth recruited from both shelters and street locations in Denver, CO; New York City; and San Francisco, CA. Street youth 12–19 years old (N = 775) were recruited by street outreach staff in Denver, New York City and San Francisco in 1992 and 1993 and interviewed. Cross-sectional, retrospective data were...

A Narrative Approach to the Evaluation of Supportive Housing: Stories of Homeless People Who Have Experienced Serious Mental Illness

M. Hatzipantelis

The report presents the findings of a narrative approach to the evaluation of supportive housing for formerly homeless people who have experienced serious mental illness. According to the accounts of 11 men and 9 women, their youth and adult years were filled with personal problems, troubled relationships, and a lack of adequate social resources. Since entering supportive housing, participants noted more stability in their...

Housing Issues Facing Immigrants and Refugees in Greater Toronto: Initial Findings From Jamaican, Polish and Somali Communities

Robert A. Murdie

Adrienne S. Chambon

J. David Hulchanski

Carlos Teixeira

Toronto is the primary reception area for Canada’s immigrants and refugees. Since the early 1970s approximately one-third of immigrants and refugees coming to Canada each year have settled in the Toronto area, which has only about thirteen percent of Canada’s population. The number of immigrants entering Canada, and settling initially in the Toronto area, increased dramatically in the late 1980s and early 1990s. For Toronto...

Gimme Shelter: Homelessness and Literacy

Looks at programs and offers best practises for improving literacy among the homeless population in shelters. The tone of the report suggests that the target population is the chronically homeless. It looks at the pros and cons of literacy education, barriers to adult education, different programs with the advantages and disadvantages to each. It includes work sheets and ideas for shelters interested in starting an adult...

Street Youths and Substance Use: the Role of Background, Street Lifestyle, and Economic Factors

Stephen W. Baron

To explore how predictors of drug used, described in the literature relate to four different types of substances – alcohol, marijuana, psychedelics and an aggregate measure of more serious drug use – to assess the processes that underlie their use. Literature background: Research indicates that street youths are drawn from homes characterized by multiple problems that might lead to alcohol and drug use. Findings also suggest...

The Impact of Homelessness and Interspousal Violence on Children's Adjustment: a Comparison of Two Populations at Risk

The present study investigated the relationship between children's adjustment and two risk indicators, witnessing interspousal violence and transitional housing. Participants were 6- to 12-year-old children and their mothers who resided in shelters for battered women or hostels for homeless families (191 children from 125 families). Group differences and predictors of adjustment were expected to reflect the risk...

Cost Effectiveness of Eviction Prevention Programs

Canada Mortgage & Housing Corporation

The objectives of this research study included documenting the costs to landlords, tenants and social services agencies resulting from eviction, as well as examining the costs and factors leading to success or failure of programs and services that help prevent evictions. The primary question addressed by the study was: How do the different approaches to eviction prevention in Canada compare to each other in terms of costs and...

A Collaborative Evaluation of a Needle Exchange Program for Youth

Rebecca L Weiker

Renee Edgington

Michele D Kipke

Limited research has been conducted to examine the effectiveness of existing HIV prevention and harm reduction interventions targeted to injection drug-using youth. Moreover, although there are a growing number of needle exchange programs being developed for youth throughout the United States, the effects of these services have yet to be systematically evaluated. This article describes a collaborative evaluation conducted by...

The Causes of Homelessness in Later Life: Findings From a 3-Nation Study

Frances Mirabelli

Alice Rota-Bartelink

Anthony M. Warnes

Homelessness is an intractable problem in many affluent countries and affects people of all ages, although much research and service provision have concentrated on young adults. Since the late 1980s, a few studies have focused on older homeless people and have found that many become homeless for the first time in later life, raising questions about why this happens, the unmet support needs of older people, and how their...

Trends in Injection Drug Use Behaviors Over 10 Years Among Street Youth

Jean-François Boudreau

Pascale Leclerc

Jean-François Boivin

The objectives of this study were to determine the temporal trends of initiation into injection drug use, current injection, and recent receptive sharing of injection paraphernalia among street youth. Data from two cohort studies conducted between 1995 and 2005 were combined. Recruitment was done on an ongoing basis. Interviews were performed semi-annually. Overall and annual drug injection incidence rates were calculated...

Street Careers: Homelessness, Drug Use, and Sex Work Among Young Men Who Have Sex With Men (Ymsm)

"Hustling," or sex work is a common means of surviving on the streets and paying for drugs among homeless youth. This article formulates the concepts of "street capital" and "street competencies" to describe how 10 young men who have sex with men (YMSM) in New York City accumulated various knowledge and skills throughout their childhood and adolescence, and later entered into homelessness and the street economy as sex workers...