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Understanding Homelessness [PDF]
The Housingory and Society, 2013 This paper reviews the literature on understanding homelessness. It criticizes approaches that ignore, distort or diminish the humanity of homeless people, or else, add little to our understanding of that humanity. In particular, it rejects what it calls “epidemiological” approaches, which deny the possibility of agency for homeless people, insofar as ...
Peter Somerville
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Hospital-to-Shelter/Housing Interventions for Persons Experiencing Homelessness
International Journal on Homelessness, 2021 Persons with lived and living experiences of homelessness (PWLEs) commonly use hospitals and emergency departments to access healthcare yet support for transitions from hospital to shelter/housing can be challenging to access.
Sarah Canham +7 more
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Experiences and Strategies of Women Affected by Street Homelessness in Zagreb
Revija za Sociologiju, 2022 NGOs and those working with people experiencing homelessness often suggest that homelessness is less common among women than men, which is confirmed by the available statistics.
Paula Greiner
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Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1996 Summary The medical literature on homeless people tends to concentrate on their biographic characteristics or clinical problems without enough attention being given to the social and environmental contexts which they have to survive. This article summarises the literature on the role of social factors in the causation and outcome of ...
W, Abdul-Hamid, C, Cooney
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Systematic Reviews, 2022 Background The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted homeless populations and service workers, especially within homeless shelter/hostel settings.
Justine Levesque +4 more
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Counting the Undercounted: Enumerating Rural Homelessness in Canada
International Journal on Homelessness, 2022 Until recently, homelessness in Canada was largely considered to be an urban phenomenon. This assumption has been reinforced by homelessness interventions that primarily focus on urban areas.
Rebecca Schiff +4 more
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Homeless in America, Homeless in California [PDF]
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2001 It is generally believed that the increased incidence of homelessness in the United States has arisen from broad societal factors, such as changes in the institutionalization of the mentally ill, increases in drug addiction and alcohol usage, and so forth.
Quigley, John M. +2 more
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Preventing Youth Homelessness in the Context of Covid-19: Complexities and Ways Forward
International Journal on Homelessness, 2022 The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has magnified detrimental social and health experiences and consequences for youth at risk of or experiencing homelessness.
Melissa Perri, Jacqueline Sohn
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BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background Evidence-based treatment for co-occurring disorders is needed within programs that serve homeless Veterans to assist with increasing engagement in care and to prevent future housing loss.
David A. Smelson +4 more
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The Extent of Homelessness in the Middle East and North Africa Region: A Scoping Review
International Journal on Homelessness, 2023 While the right to housing is a fundamental right per article 25 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ‘homelessness’ is still generally a Western concept and not comprehensively recognized or addressed as a social issue in many countries ...
Fawziah Rabiah-Mohammed, Abe Oudshoorn
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