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Moving on trial: protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial of models of housing and support to reduce risks of COVID-19 infection and homelessness

Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2022
Background It is estimated that around 160,000 households in Britain experience homelessness each year, although no definitive statistics exist. Between March and September 2020, as part of the initial ‘Everyone In’ government response to COVID-19 in ...
Elizabeth Randell, Bethan Pell, Gwenllian Moody, Calie Dyer, Kim Smallman, Kerenza Hood, James White, Tim Aubry, Dennis Culhane, Susannah Hume, Faye Greaves, Guillermo Rodriguez-Guzman, Ligia Teixeira, Victoria Mousteri, Nick Spyropoulos, Rebecca Cannings-John, Peter Mackie   +16 more
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Estimating annual rates of homelessness

Demographic Research, 2020
Background: Homelessness is an important though exceedingly difficult phenomenon to measure and understand. The most common sources of data measure homelessness only on a given night or set of consecutive nights, contact with homelessness service ...
James O'Donnell
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Homelessness and Gender Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa Region

International Journal on Homelessness
While homelessness is a global phenomenon, research on homelessness skews heavily towards high-income nations such as those in North America, Europe, and Australia.
Negar Shahriariyanehsari, Fawziah Rabiah-Mohammed, Abe Oudshoorn, Alex Nelson   +3 more
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Rural Homelessness in Western Canada: Lessons Learned from Diverse Communities

Social Inclusion, 2016
Until recently, there was little acknowledgement that homelessness existed in rural areas in Canada. Limited research and scarce data are available to understand the scope and dynamics of rural homelessness in Canada.
Jeannette Waegemakers Schiff, Rebecca Schiff, Alina Turner   +2 more
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Gender(ed) Pathways and Exits Out of ‘Street’ Homelessness in Tshwane, South Africa?: A Transformative Social Policy Perspective

İstanbul Üniversitesi Sosyoloji Dergisi
While homelessness remains a gendered experience, the latest census data from the South African Statistical Agency (StatsSA), focusing solely on rooflessness and emergency shelters, indicates that, in the last census decade, the homeless population in ...
Newman Tekwa
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Reclaimed Voices: The Silent Impact of Women’s Experiences of Homelessness

International Journal on Homelessness
Background: Homelessness is a rising crisis that affects hundreds of thousands of individuals in America; but affects women differently than men. The experiences women face while homeless can translate into traumatic experiences and profoundly shape an ...
Heather Toki, Ogbochi McKinney, Janet Bonome, Dominick Sturz   +3 more
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The Needs of Women Using Homelessness Services: The Results of Collaborative Research in London

Social Sciences
This paper explores the results of a study conducted in collaboration with the homelessness sector in central London and an academic team. Data were collected on 134 women who used homelessness services in an area of central London during a nine-day ...
Joanne Bretherton, Nicholas Pleace
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Theoretical approaches and directions in the research of homelessness: A critical analysis [PDF]

Sociološki Pregled, 2019
Homelessness is often explained simplistically and somewhat a theoretically, as a housing problem or as a social welfare issue caused by structural or individual factors.
Bilinović-Rajačić Ana Lj., Čikić Jovana M.   +1 more
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“Eventually it Just Hit Like a Tonne of Bricks:” Life After Homelessness Amongst Takatāpui/LGBTIQ+ People in Aotearoa New Zealand

International Journal on Homelessness
Although Takatāpui/ lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, questioning, plus (LGBTIQ+) people are over-represented in homelessness statistics, there is limited qualitative research that explores the enduring effects of homelessness once they have
Brodie Fraser, Elinor Chisholm, Nevil Pierse   +2 more
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Homeless Images

, 2016
If it has a home at all, the proper home of the image, and even the thought-image or Denkbild, is homelessness. Never fully itself, the image remains at odds both with itself and with the referen-tial burden that it is expected to carry. In its iterability, the image, which threatens to be divorced from referential functions such as time and space ...
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