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The ‘ideal’ homelessness law: balancing ‘rights centred’ and ‘professional-centred’ social policy
Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Liz Davies
This paper sets out proposals for the ‘ideal’ legal framework to address homelessness in Great Britain (GB), with potential lessons for other countries seeking to pursue rights-based approaches in this field. Exploiting the ‘natural experiment’...
Homelessness in the UK: who is most at risk?
Glen Bramley and Suzanne Fitzpatrick
Is the common pressure group and media refrain that ‘we are all two paycheques away from homelessness’ justified by the evidence? Drawing on multivariate analysis of two cross-sectional datasets (the ‘Scottish Household Survey’ and the UK-wide ‘...
A Global Framework for Understanding and Measuring Homelessness
Volker Busch-Geertsemaa, Dennis Culhane, Suzanne Fitzpatrick
There is no globally agreed definition of homelessness. Even within countries, the topic can be contentious. At the same time, we know we can’t measure and solve a problem we can’t define, so in 2015 IGH made developing shared language on...
Eradicating Core Homelessness in Scotland's Four Largest Cities: Providing an Evidence Base and Guiding a Funding Framework
Mandy Littlewood, Glen Bramley, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Jenny Wood
Social Bite commissioned Heriot-Watt University's Institute for Social Policy, Housing and Equalities Research (I-SPHERE) to conduct research to provide an evidence base for the disbursement of these funds to relevant service provider organisations...
The homelessness monitor: England 2018
Glen Bramley, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Hal Pawson, Beth Watts, and Jenny Wood
The homelessness monitor is a longitudinal study providing an independent analysis of the homelessness impacts of recent economic and policy developments in England. It considers both the consequences of the post-2007 economic and housing market...
The Homelessness Monitor: Scotland 2019
Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Hal Pawson, Glen Bramley, Beth Watts, Jenny Wood, Mark Stephens, Janice Blenkinsopp
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...
The Homelessness Monitor: England 2019
Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Hal Pawson, Glen Bramley, Jenny Wood, Beth Watts, Mark Stephens, Janice Blenkinsopp
The homelessness monitor is a longitudinal study providing an independent analysis of the homelessness impacts of recent economic and policy developments across the United Kingdom. Separate reports are produced for each of the UK nations. This...
What Works in Inclusion Health: Overview of Effective Interventions for Marginalised and Excluded Populations
Serena Luchenski, Nick Maguire, Robert W Aldridge, Andrew Hayward, Alistair Story, Patrick Perri, James Withers, Sharon Clint, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Nigel Hewett
Inclusion health is an emergent approach that aims to address extreme health and social inequities. Target populations have common adverse life experiences and risk factors such as poverty and childhood trauma that lead to social exclusion....
Housing First: Housing-led Solutions to Rough Sleeping and Homelessness
Brooks Newmark, Hannah Gousy, Matt Downie, Alice Evans, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Martin Houghton-Brown, Christina Marriott, Peter Mackie, Jacqui McCluskey, Dominic Williamson, Mike Wright
Executive Summary Homelessness is a devastating experience. It can trigger and exacerbate problems, from substance misuse to mental health conditions, and destabilise families and support networks. And the effects can last a lifetime; children who...
Homelessness in 2030: Essays on possible futures
Boróka Fehér, Dennis P. Culhane, Eoin O’Sullivan, Freek Spinnewijn, Guy Johnson, Ilkka Taipale, Julien Damon, Lars Benjaminsen, Marcus Knutagård, Maria Ohisalo, Marybeth Shinn, Michele Lancione, Nicholas Pleace, Nóra Teller, Riitta Granfelt, Saija Turunen, Stephen Gaetz, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, 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...