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Housing Policy

Housing policy refers to the actions of government, including legislation and program delivery, which have a direct or indirect impact on housing supply and availability, housing standards and urban planning. Through legislation, the allocation of resources, tax policies and housing policy can also impact house prices and affordability, as well as the availability of an adequate supply of rental housing.

Policies around housing can result in an investment in social housing, support for alternative types of rental housing (such as co-ops) or tax policies to encourage the private sector to build and operate more rental housing.1

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Resources

Local Authority Homelessness Prevention in England: Empowering Consumers or Denying Rights?
Hal Pawson
High profile commitments to stemming homelessness have been integral to New Labour's emphasis on promoting social inclusion since 1997. During this period official policy has favoured an increasingly assertive approach in this area as...
Region:
Europe
Perceptions of Quality of Life And Disability in Homeless Persons with Schizophrenia And Persons With Schizophrenia Living In Non-Institutional Housing
A. G. van der Plas
 H. W. Hoek
 D. van Hoeken
  E. Valencia
 A. M. van Hemert
Homelessness is common in persons with schizophrenia. It is unclear how housing conditions and homelessness affect their quality of life and their disability. Seventy-six not-homeless and 50 homeless persons with schizophrenia were...
Region:
North America
Homelessness Prevention Research Brief
Marybeth Shinn
Homelessness prevention can be approached in two ways. One – the more enduring path to ending homelessness – is to fix the systemic problems that cause it: social inequalities of income, wealth, and opportunity, and a failure of the social...
Region:
North America
Rental Housing Subsidies and Homelessness Research Brief
Jill Khadduri
Homelessness is fundamentally a housing affordability problem, and for most individuals and families the pathway out of homelessness is to return to the same type of housing other households occupy in the community. Even though they are...
Region:
North America
Children and Families Research Brief
Michelle Wood
Research evidence indicates that homelessness among families is more likely to be influenced by economic cycles compared with individual homelessness. However, the similarities between families who become homeless and other low-income...
Region:
North America
The Integration Of Homelessness, Mental Health And Drug And Alcohol Services In Australia
Paul Flatau
Elizabeth Conroy
Anne Clear
Lucy Burns
The study is concerned with developing a typology of integration, scoping the need for, and current existence of, integration in Australia, and providing indicative findings on the effectiveness of integration involving homeless people...
Region:
Australia & Oceania
I Built My House of Hope: Abused Women and Pathways Into Homelessness
Show less Leslie M. Tutty
Cindy Ogden
Bianca Giurgiu
Gillian Weaver-Dunlop
Violence from intimate partners is a serious reality for a number of women. For some abused women, leaving becomes a path to homelessness. In fact, when abused women and their children leave their homes because of partner abuse, they...
Region:
North America
Unshackling The Chains of Homelessness in the City of Tshwane: A Critical Appraisal of the Current Policy in the Light of National and Local Policies and Strategies
Thinandavha Derrick Mashau
This article provides a critical appraisal of the current Homelessness Policy for the City of Tshwane in the light of national and local policies and strategies. Both a literature review and policy analysis were conducted to attain the...
Region:
Africa
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