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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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Can Laws Prevent Begging in India? An Interview with Mohd Tarique
In this interview, Professor Mohd Tarique discusses the isolation of beggars in India, from legal and police responses to that of social stigma and exclusion. 
Bengaluru's Continuing Inequity: An Eviction Impact Assessment of Ejipura/Koramangala Four Years After its Demolition
Housing and Land Rights Network
Amidst the all-encompassing enthusiasm for growth and progress, the rapid pace of urbanization in India brings with it the challenges of inequality and inequity, including those related to dispossession and displacement of the urban poor, which need to be addressed. The city government of Bengaluru forcibly evicted over 1,500 families from Ejipura/ Koramangala in January 2013. A human rights-based ‘Eviction Impact Assessment...
Indianapolis Community Plan to End Homelessness
Coalition for Homelessness Intervention & Prevention
The Indianapolis Community Plan to End Homelessness: 2018 - 2023 is a five-year plan that includes a set of long-term solutions providing the types of systemic reforms necessary to take a truly collaborative approach to end homelessness in our community and serve as a catalyst to developing real solutions for this urgent need.  The goal of the five-year plan is that by 2023, any individual or family in Indianapolis who become...
India's Smart Cities Mission: Smart for Whom? Cities for Whom?
Shivani Chaudhry
Deepak Kumar
and Swapnil Saxena
This article discusses the transformation of cities in India into "smart" cities and the ramifications of such a redesign on those experiencing homelessness and poverty. The authors argue that the new image of the cityscape is a more exclusionary one and will push low-income residents and people experiencing homelessness out.  In this article, the Housing and Land Rights Network analyzes the plan through a human tighs lens in...
Forced Eviction in India in 2017: An Alarming National Crisis
In the year 2017, data collected by Housing and Land Rights Network India (HLRN) revealed that government authorities, at both the central and state levels, demolished over 53,700 homes, thereby forcefully evicting more than 260,000 (2.6 lakh) people across urban and rural India, including people experiencing homelessness. HLRN uses the definition of ‘forced eviction’ provided by General Comment 71 of the United Nations (UN)...
From Deluge to Displacement: The Impact of Post-flood Evictions and Resettlement in Chennai
Vanessa Peter
In November–December 2015, the state of Tamil Nadu in southern India was impacted by severe floods. The District of Chennai was one of the worst affected in the destructive deluge. Those residing on the banks of Cooum and Adyar Rivers, which house the majority of Chennai’s urban poor, were among the worst impacted. The banks of Cooum River housed 14,972 families in 65 settlements while the banks of Adyar River accommodated 9,...
Homeless Hub
The Homeless Hub is a web-based research library and information centre representing an innovative step forward in the use of technology to enhance knowledge mobilization and networking.
The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness
The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness leads a national movement of individuals, organizations and communities working together to end homelessness in Canada.
Home, Together
The United States Interagency Council on Homelessness
Home, Together is the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness's (USICH) federal strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness across the U.S. This plan has an increased focus on increasing affordable housing opportunities; strengthening prevention and diversion practices; creating solutions for people experiencing unsheltered, or street, homelessness; tailoring strategies for rural communities; helping people who...
Home, Together: The federal strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness
United States Interagency on Homelessness
This report outlines the federal strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness in the U.S. This report is guided by the principle that addressing the complex causes of homelessness requires collaborative solutions. Ending homelessness not only means ensuring people have a safe and stable place to call home, but also that services and supports work to help individuals with on a holistic and longterm basis.  
Housing First: tackling homelessness for those in need
Alexander Bellis and Wendy Wilson
Housing First (HF) is an alternative homelessness intervention strategy, aimed at people with complex needs, particularly rough sleepers. It is not seen as a replacement for all homelessness services and strategies. This paper provides an overview of the HF model and discusses available evidence on the model’s outcomes. Policy developments in England and the devolved administrations are also covered.
Child Separation among Families Experiencing Homelessness
Douglas Walton
Michelle Wood
Lauren Dunton
This series of research briefs explores issues of family homelessness that are especially relevant to HHS, to state and local decision-makers, and for programs. The Child Separation among Families Experiencing Homelessness brief explores child separations among families experiencing homelessness. It builds upon the fourth brief in this series, “Child and Partner Transitions among Families Experiencing Homelessness,” which...
On my own two feet: Why do some people return to rough sleeping after time off the streets?
St. Mungo's
This report describes the findings from a small-scale, exploratory, qualitative research project that explores reasons why some people return to sleeping rough after time off the streets. The research team identified four key areas for analysis: push factors; pull factors; holes in the safety net; access to services. The report also included a range of recommendations to prevent people from sleeping rough again.  The research...
Development Policies for Eradication of Street Begging in Bangladesh
Mohammad Manjur Alam and Arif Billah
The purpose of this paper is to examine the situation of social exclusion of street beggar; this paper also examines the development policies for beggar in Bangladesh and to understand how the existing policies can protect street beggars’ right and how they could enjoy country’s currently available facilities. It explored the linkage between beggars’ right in Bangladesh and inclusion of street beggar in development policies...
Engaging Community Residents with Lived Experience
Through the Spreading Community Accelerators through Learning and Evaluation (SCALE) initiative, community partners developed a strengths-based model of community transformation, called Community of Solutions, in partnership with communities. The creators of SCALE believed that communities would create far better, more effective solutions to homelessness if they were guided by the individuals who lived and breathed the...
Ending Homelessness The report on the final recommendations of the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Group
Many aspects of ending homelessness in Scotland have been addressed in the first three reports from the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Group (HRSAG). All of the work to date has been informed by discussions with more than 400 people with recent or current experience of homelessness, from across Scotland. This approach has also clearly enabled the HRSAG to work quickly to develop coherent and workable recommendations...
Lifting the Lid on Hidden Homelessness
Christa Maciver
This report provides a fresh analysis of data on hidden homeless populations in unsupported temporary accommodation (UTA) in order to lift the lid on the true extent of homelessness in England. UTA is private, short-stay accommodation in which households do not have permanent residency status and limited access to local authority support to find settled accommodation. It includes Bed & Breakfasts (B&Bs),short-stay...
Promising Practices: 12 Case Studies in Supportive Housing for People with Mental Health and Addiction Issues
This resource guide documents 12 examples of promising practices in supportive housing for people with mental health and addiction issues from across Ontario. Each case study has a distinct approach, but common themes were identified across these twelve specific examples – regarding supports, housing and partnerships. In addition to those themes, the challenges and successes demonstrated through the case studies pointed to...
Homelessness in Europe: Access to Shelter
Housing affordability and liveability are emerging as the most challenging social policy issues in Europe, with the ability to access housing adversely affecting young people, those with dependent family members, and migrants. Shelters are the physical interface of the staircase approach for people experiencing homelessness, with a succession of preparatory interventions, from initial reception to social reintegration....
Temporary Accommodation in Scotland: Interim Report
Janice Blenkinsopp
Mandy Littlewood
Beth Watts
This interim report addresses the Scottish Government's new plan to eradicate rough sleeping and transform the use of temporary accommodation (TA). By questioning the purpose of TA and subsequent relationship with supported accommodation (SA), the authors offer data-based considerations to improve the new program and the future of homelessness work in Scotland.