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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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The Challenges of Providing for the Street Homeless: Johannesburg as a Single Case Study

Muhammad Shabier Tayob

The thesis considers the challenges associated with providing for the street homeless in Johannesburg. From a planning perspective, the research aims at leading to enlightenment on practical solutions to address the problem in Johannesburg. The study notes that the street homeless or the ‘rough sleepers’ population are amongst the most distressed people that live in negligible and inadequate housing. Dating back since before...

Pathways out of Homelessness: Research Report Summary

Tshwane Homelessness Forum

More than 40 researchers from the Universities of Pretoria and South Africa, with coresearchers from civil society, the faith-based sector, the City of Tshwane, and the homeless community, have collaborated to retrieve and capture diverse narratives and practices describing street homelessness in the City of Tshwane, as well as possible pathways out of street homelessness. In addition, they have developed conceptual...

THE RIGHT TO HOUSING IN SOUTH AFRICA: AN EVOLVING JURISPRUDENCE

Lucy A. Williams

This Article focuses on recent South African constitutional and statutory jurisprudence regarding the right to housing, and attempts to analyze both its transformative possibilities and its doctrinal limitations. The South African Constitutional Court’s housing rights jurisprudence is more developed than that regarding any other social and economic right contained in the South African Constitution, with eviction cases having...

The epidemiology of substance use among street children in resource-constrained settings: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Lonnie Embleton

Ann Mwangi

Rachel Vreeman

David Ayuku & Paula Braitstein

To compile and analyze critically the literature published on street children and substance use in resource-constrained settings. We searched the literature systematically and used meta-analytical procedures to synthesize literature that met the review's inclusion criteria. The significant gaps in the literature, including a dearth of data on physical and mental health outcomes, HIV and mortality in association with street...

Situational analysis of street girls in Kampala, Uganda

Josephine Tusingwire Karumira

This study is made possible by the generous support of the American people through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). The contents are the responsibility of Retrak and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government. Uganda has an estimated 2.5 million orphans, one of the highest numbers in the world, and 25 percent of all households look after at least one child...

Findings of a Study Exploring Homeless Street Females in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Need for Community Based Programs

A qualitative research design using the interviews of five homeless street females was undertaken to understand the meaning of the lived experiences of the homeless street females and their identified need for community based programs. This research design provided the researchers with the opportunity to understand the complexities of homelessness from the homeless street females in Ethiopia using ethnography.

Burden of mental disorders and unmet needs among street homeless people in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Tsehaysina Gebre-Eyesus

As a first step towards advocacy and provision of care, we conducted a study to determine the burden of psychotic disorders and associated unmet needs, as well as the prevalence of mental distress, suicidality, and alcohol use disorder among homeless people in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among street homeless adults. Psychoses and other mental and behavioural disorders affect...

Contextualizing International Voluntary Guidelines into Country Specific Land Investment Governance Systems: Experience from Tanzania

Wilbard Mkama

This preliminary study involved consultation of responsible district government officials and relevant Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) on various issues related to land and investments. Among other areas, the Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) was selected as a study site and study used the Focus Group Discussions (FGDs) to obtain information. Questionnaire designed reflected land investment...

The Economics of Hosting Refugees : A Host Community Perspective from Turkana

Jennifer Alix-Garcia

Erhan Artuc

Harun Onder

In 1991, thousands of South Sudanese boys walked into Kenya. Having fled war in their own countries, about 20 thousand of these "lost boys" first tried taking refuge in Ethiopia. With no real options to stay, many were killed on their walk back to South Sudan or while attempting to swim the crocodile infested River Gilo, before entering Kenya. Between 7 thousand and 10 thousand were estimated to have made it alive to Kenya at...

Children as biological sufferers? The paradox of international medical aid for homeless children in Cairo

Rania Kassab Sweis

This article explores how adfāl al shawāri’ (street children) receive international medical aid in Cairo, the Middle East and North Africa’s largest and most populous city. Based on ethnography conducted between 2007 and 2009 in one French-funded children’s shelter, it argues that western-based international aid organizations increasingly approach children as “biological sufferers” and that this depoliticizing approach...

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