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Paradigm of Rural Homelessness

open access: yesColumbia Social Work Review, 2019
Rural homelessness is a social problem that has drawn limited scholarly attention in the social work field. This case study of Clinton County, New York, examines the existing service structure to address homelessness while highlighting challenges ...
Jessica Spissinger
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Hiding Homelessness: The Transcarceration of Homelessness

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
Cities throughout the country respond to homelessness with laws that persecute people for surviving in public space, even when unsheltered people lack a reasonable alternative. This widespread practice—the criminalization of homelessness—processes vulnerable people through the criminal justice system with damaging results.
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Homelessness, psychiatric disorders, and risks of suicide and self-harm: a population-based cohort study

open access: yesThe Lancet Public Health
Summary: Background: Homelessness is associated with adverse outcomes, but associations with suicide and self-harm require careful examination. We examined risks of suicidal behaviours in people experiencing homelessness compared with the general ...
Sandra F Nilsson, PhD   +5 more
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Homeless Images

open access: yes, 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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Housing Policy, Urbanization, and the Production of Homelessness in Greenland

open access: yesInternational Journal on Homelessness
Visible homelessness is on the rise in Nuuk, Greenland. Since the early 2000s, the number of people staying at the municipal shelter, accessing support programs, and registering as homeless in the community has, by a qualitative estimate grown. Attention
Julia Christensen   +3 more
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Cognitive Homelessness

open access: yesJournal of Philosophy, 1996
There is a constant temptation in philosophy to postulate a realm of phenomena in which nothing is hidden from us. Rene Descartes thought that one's own mind is such a realm. Ludwig Wittgenstein' enlarged the realm to everything that is of interest to philosophy.
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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

A Study on Homelessness and Homelessness Phenomenon

open access: yes
This study sought to gather data regarding homeless individuals residing in the city center of Antalya and their familial backgrounds. The objective was to investigate their living conditions before homelessness, the factors that contributed to their situation, the onset of the process, their experiences while homeless, the problems encountered, and ...
DİRİL, Pamir , Assoc. Prof. Dr.   +1 more
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Prevalence and Risk of Heart Failure Among Older Adults Experiencing Homelessness: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. [PDF]

open access: yesCan Geriatr J
Hoang PM   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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