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Understanding the Population of People Experiencing Homelessness in Cape Town and their Service Use

open access: yesInternational Journal on Homelessness
Cape 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
doaj   +1 more source

2015 Estimate of Homeless People in Chicago [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) has developed a new methodology for estimating the homelesspopulation in Chicago throughout the year. CCH uses a definition of homelessness which incorporatesall those considered homeless under the U.S. Department

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Do Policy Capacities Matter for Federal Policy Design? Evidence From the Implementation of Three Social Policies in Brazil

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together the literature on policy design, policy capacity and policy making in multilevel systems, this paper argues that the effectiveness of policy design in federal countries depends, ceteris paribus, on the adequacy of federal and local policy capacities.
Giliberto Capano   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mitigating Health Disparities Through Empathetic Policymaking During Times of Crisis

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic greatly exacerbated the existing disparities and inequities in health and healthcare among historically marginalized populations. Today, these impacts still echo. These persistent structured inequities erode the public's trust in government, lead to failure in public policies, and result in worse health consequences ...
Yali Pang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Discussion paper: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples perspectives on homelessness, 2013 [PDF]

open access: yes
In recognition of the differences in understanding concepts of home and homelessness, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is undertaking further engagement to inform estimation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander homelessness.

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A Study on Preventing Thermal Runaway of Contaminated Ammonium Nitrate Prill in Bulk Storage

open access: yesPropellants, Explosives, Pyrotechnics, EarlyView.
Schematic illustration of a contaminated region of ammonium nitrate prill undergoing exothermic decomposition, producing gases containing NOx. The interstitial flow of these heated gases rapidly raises the temperature of ammonium nitrate along the flow path.
Pramith Priyananda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Survey COVID-19 among the homeless residents of Isin camp in Bandar Abbas in South of Iran

open access: gold, 2021
Elham Ahmadizadeh Fini   +5 more
openalex   +1 more source

Homelessness in New Zealand [PDF]

open access: yes
Introduction: This paper examines homelessness in New Zealand, particularly those people living without shelter and in temporary accommodation given they can experience severe health problems.
Paul Bellamy
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Prostitution: A Violent Reality of Homelessness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
This policy paper summarizes findings on the connections between homelessness and ...
Erika Schoot, Samir Goswami
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