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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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Ending Homelessness Among Older Adults and Elders Through Permanent Supportive Housing

Corporation for Supportive Housing

Older adults who are experiencing homelessness have three to four times the mortality rate of the general population due to unmet physical health, mental health, and substance use treatment needs. The combination of issues typically associated with homelessness such as mental health and substance abuse with those related to aging such as reduced mobility and a need for assistance with daily activities is requiring that elder...

Supported Lodgings

Beth Watts

Janice Blenkinsopp

Supported Lodgings schemes provide young people with a room of their own in the home of a vetted and trained private household, with support to the ‘host’ household(er) and young person provided by a specialist organization. They are one form of ‘community hosting’ model, that utilize community assets to provide young people in need of accommodation with a home and support. Increasing interest in community hosting across the...

Mission Australia Annual Report 2018: Together We Stand

Mission Australia

The generosity of Mission Australia’s supporters and the tireless work of our staff and volunteers saw 119,185 disadvantaged Australians receive the help they needed to move towards independence in 2017-18. Mission Australia's Annual Report 2018 highlights the progress made towards our goal of reducing homelessness and strengthening communities across the country over the past year.

Ethical Renting

the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless

Abbé Pierre Foundation

As part of FEANTSA and the Fondation Abbé Pierre's series on Access to Decent and Afforable Housing in Europe: Case Studies and Innovative Solutions, this publication looks at how to mobile the private rental market to provide social solutions in Europe. They ask the question: what actions can we take to transform housing, from what is increasingly being seen and used as an asset and a financial product, into a guaranteed...

Bringing it All Together: Integrating Services to Address Homelessness

Alina Turner

Diana Krecsy

This research paper from the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy outlines the benefits of integrating services to address homelessness. It discusses how Canada allocates funding towards various issues that correlate with homelessness, such as mental illness, addiction, etc. and how cost effective it would be to consolidate services and their costs. It also discusses strategies to integrate and consolidate services.

Supporting Affordable Housing Supply: Inclusionary Planning in New and Renewing Communities

Nicole Gurran

Catherine Gilbert

Kenneth Gibb

Ryan van den Nouwelant

Amity James Curtin

Peter Phibbs

This study examined how land use planning mechanisms can support affordable housing inclusion within new and renewing communities. It found that 'inclusionary planning' tools leverage significant quantities of affordable housing supply in many parts of the UK and US. For instance, 12,866 affordable housing units (43% of total affordable housing output) were delivered through inclusionary planning requirements in England...

Tackling the Under Supply of Housing in England

Wendy Wilson

Cassie Barton

This briefing paper discusses the need for new housing in England and trends in housing supply, as well as barriers and solutions. Estimates have put the number of new homes needed in England at between 240,000 and 340,000 per year, accounting for new household formation and a backlog of existing need for suitable housing. In 2017/18, the total housing stock in England increased by around 222,000 homes. This was 2% higher...

Modelling Housing Need in Australia to 2025

This research developed a housing need simulation to quantify the need for affordable housing and identify the supply required to meet the demand for housing in Australia. The report is designed to guide thinking around resource allocation, market monitoring, setting affordable housing targets, housing assistance budgeting and evidence for affordable housing contributions via planning policy. The research delivers a...

Structural Prevention of Youth Homelessness

This report is one of a six-part series on youth homelessness prevention, drawing from The Roadmap for the Prevention of Youth Homelessness. The Roadmap is designed to support a paradigm shift to prevention by providing a clear definition of youth homelessness prevention, offering a framework and common language for prevention policy and practice, reviewing the evidence for prevention, and highlighting practice examples from...

Everyone Counts: 2018 Point-in-Time Count

The 2018 PiT Count is partially funded by the Government of Canada’s HPS. This is the second time the HPS has provided funding to conduct a nation-wide PiT Count and the first time the City of Kamloops has participated. Through a call for applications issued to the community in September 2017, two coordinators were contracted to coordinate the count—an Indigenous Engagement Coordinator and a Point-in-Time Count Coordinator....

Ending Homelessness Together: High Level Action Plan

Scottish Government

This Action Plan sets out the direction for real and lasting change towards ending homelessness. Having somewhere to call home is a basic human right and housing is one of the most important factors in any person’s quality of life. This Plan sets out the wide range of measures needed to have in place that help prevent homelessness in the first place and ensure that when it does happen, the needs of people experiencing...

Systems Work Better Together: Strengthening Public Workforce & Homeless Service Systems Collaboration

Drawing from in-depth interviews with public workforce and homeless service systems leaders and the work of our five Connections Project sites, this paper identifies common barriers to public workforce and homeless service systems collaboration and recommends how to address these barriers in order to help ensure that homeless and unstably housed jobseekers can access economic opportunity and stabilize in housing.

Forced Displacement: Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

Famvin Homeless Alliance

Forced Displacement The briefing paper “Forced Displacement – Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons” sets out to provide a snapshot of forced displacement, its impact and current approaches to finding durable solutions for those that have had no choice but to leave their homes behind. It tries to illustrate the complexity of the issue by touching on a wide range of aspects, including the legal landscape as well as the...

Understanding the Success of Chicago’s Ending Veteran Homelessness Initiative

All Chicago

The Ending Veteran Homelessness Initiative (EVHI) is 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 initiative built off the momentum of multiple national efforts, including 25 Cities, Built for Zero, and the Mayor’s Challenge to End Veteran Homelessness, among other campaigns. Since its start in 2015,...

Chronic Homelessness in Melbourne: First-Year Outcomes of Journey to Social Inclusion Phase 2 Study Participants

The Journey to Social Inclusion (J2SI) Phase 2 program, delivered by Sacred Heart Mission (SHM), uses an intensive case management approach focused on capacity building and relationship development to facilitate the movement of chronically homeless people in Melbourne to permanent, stable housing and a pathway to broader social inclusion. The first year of the J2SI Phase 2 program focused on the attainment of permanent...

A Stocktake of New Zealand's Housing

Shamubeel Eaqub

Philippa Howden-Chapman

Alan Johnson

This report is an important building block to help the Government of New Zealand to make housing policy decisions. It assesses the key parts of New Zealand's housing system; examining market renting, homeownership, new housing, state and social housing, housing assistance, homelessness and emergency housing, security of tenure and the social costs and benefits of housing quality. With homeownership now at a 60-year low and...

Homes Not Handcuffs

Norma A. Herrera

This report by Grassroots Leadership Action Research Collective (ARC) and Gathering Ground Theater, Homes Not Handcuffs, sheds light on increasing criminalization of those experiencing homelessness in Austin, Texas. The key findings of the report make clear that criminalization is harmful and ineffective at connecting folks experiencing homelessness to housing supports. There is need to do better than ticketing and arrests to...

Homeless in Observatory, Cape Town through the lens of Max-Neef's Fundamental Human Needs Taxonomy

The aim of this article is to explain the profile of homeless in Observatory, Cape Town, South Africa using Max-Neef's fundamental human needs taxonomy. The level of homelessness on the streets of South Africa is regarded as a slow-moving tragedy. This article highlights the complexity of the lives of the homeless and complex and holistic efforts to end homelessness.

Community Response Resources

Corporation for Supportive Housing

This online toolkit by Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH), is a community response resource developed for communities, government agencies and nonprofit organizations addressing unsheltered homelessness across the globe. The tool kit comprise policies, tools & templates to customize, reproduce and share in addressing unsheltered homelessness.

Evidence Tools

Centre Homelessness Impact

Centre Homelessness Impact believe that using reliable evidence is critical to helping people make informed and impactful decisions in their work, but this isn’t easy for people working day-in-day-out to end homelessness. These Evidence Tools for homelessness put evidence at people's fingertips, making the evidence that’s available easier to assess and use. Current tools show what the evidence says about homelessness...

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