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Understanding the Population of People Experiencing Homelessness in Cape Town and their Service Use
International Journal on HomelessnessCape Town, South Africa, has an estimated 14,357 people living on the street or in temporary shelters. Current responses to homelessness are either punitive—focusing on law enforcement and displacement—or compassionate, offering basic relief like food or
Jonathan Hopkins +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Government food procurement investment offers significant potential to advance health and sustainability goals; yet, integrating these dimensions into policy design has proved challenging. We mapped and analysed 38 food procurement and catering‐specific policies in Australia to identify ways to strengthen policy design: 20 governing ...
Carolina Venegas Hargous +3 more
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A survey of homelessness and homeless services in West Dorset: A way forward
, 2003 This report reviews the nature and extent of homelessness in West Dorset District Council (WDDC). In particular it focuses on: • exploring current levels of homelessness; • identifying the causes of homelessness within the local authority area ...
Ricketts, Chris +2 more
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, 2020 The Homelessness Learning Hub is a website that hosts free toolkits, self-paced lessons, and classroom activities related to homelessness and oppression.
Canadian Observatory on Homelessness
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Statutory Homelessness Flows, England, 2019-2023: Secure Access
, 2022 copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner. The Homelessness Case Level Information Collection (H-CLIC) project aims to create a linked dataset of information about homelessness in England, to improve understanding of its causes ...
Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
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Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity responds rationally to incentives. To shed light on these issues, we collect data on hundreds of panhandlers and the passersby they solicit at ...
Peter T. Leeson +2 more
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Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the causal impact of federal homeless‐assistance grants on reported homelessness and shelter capacity across 370 Continuums of Care in 2019. We exploit cross‐sectional variation in pre‐1940 housing shares, used in Community Development Block Grant formula allocations, as an instrument for combined CoC and Emergency ...
Luke Maddock, Anita Alves Pena
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Subsidized Housing, Emergency Shelters, and Homelessness: An Empirical Investigation Using Data from the 1990 Census [PDF]
This paper uses data on the only systematic count of the homeless throughout the United States to estimate the effect on the rate of homelessness of a wide variety of potentially important determinants, including several major policy responses to ...
Dirk W. Early, Edgar O. Olsen
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The faces of homelessness : a study of homelessness in South Carolina [PDF]
, 2007 This report is an attempt to further the understanding of homelessness in the state of South Carolina; to provide estimates on the extent of homelessness as well as information on various sub-populations of the homeless population; and to inform planning
South Carolina Council on Homelessness
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Local Eviction Moratoria and the Spread of COVID‐19
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At different stages during the initial onset of the COVID‐19 pandemic, various US states and local municipalities enacted eviction moratoria. One of the main aims of these moratoria was to slow the spread of COVID‐19 infections. We deploy a semiparametric difference‐in‐differences approach with an event study specification to examine whether ...
Julia Hatamyar, Christopher F. Parmeter
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