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Community Evaluations & Planning

United Kingdom

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...
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Europe
Tackling homelessness and exclusion: Understanding complex lives
Theresa McDonagh
For some people, homelessness is not just a housing issue but something that is inextricably linked with complex and chaotic life experiences. Mental health problems, drug and alcohol dependencies, street culture activities and institutional experiences (such as prison and the care system) are often closely linked with the more extreme...
Region:
Europe
Complex needs: Homelessness services in the Housing Options East Hub
Manual Macias
Scotland is widely regarded as having some of the most progressive homelessness legislation and practice in the world. Since 2012, every unintentionally homeless person has the right to a permanent home, and to temporary accommodation, advice and housing support while a permanent home is found. These rights and a new focus on prevention...
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Europe
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 in Scotland's four largest cities (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen).  A central...
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Europe
Homelessness Prevention: Reflecting on a Year of Pioneering Welsh Legislation in Practice
Peter K. Mackie
Ian Thomas
Jennie Bibbings
Homelessness prevention has become the dominant policy paradigm for homelessness services across the developed world. However, services have emerged in a piecemeal and selective manner, often restricted to particular towns and cities, with no requirement on local authorities to intervene. Wales is the first country where the government...
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Europe
Homelessness Prevention and the Welsh Legal Duty: Lessons for International Policies
Peter K. Mackie
The paradigm shift in international homelessness policies towards a prevention focus has resulted in proven benefits to society and most importantly to individuals at risk of homelessness. Across the developed world, homelessness prevention is being pursued with vigour alongside existing homelessness interventions and yet there has been...
Region:
Europe
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