Counting the Cost of Homelessness: a Systematic Review of Cost Effectiveness and Cost Benefit Studies of Homelessness
Description:
There are at least three features of the policy environment in Australia that have led to an interest in the cost of homelessness met by service system budgetary expenditures and the broad cost of homelessness to society through lost productivity and reduced social cohesion. First, homelessness has become an entrenched feature of Australian society. Against the background of the idea of primary, secondary and tertiary homelessness, the SAAP Data and Research Advisory Committee (SAAP Data and Research Advisory Committee, 2000) states: Estimates based on these definitions put the number of people experiencing homelessness in Australia on any given night somewhere between 60,000 and 105,000, of whom less than half experience primary homelessness or chronic homelessness of any kind. (abstract from the document)
Type of Resource:
Report
Publication Date:
2003
Location:
Australia