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Publication Date: 2017
Executive Summary
The Housing and Life Experiences project was commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as part of its major programme of work on housing and poverty. The intention to better understand how housing impacts on poverty over the life course, and to inform the development of housing policy that prevents, mitigates against and lifts households out of poverty. The project commenced in January 2015, and will be completed in 2017. I...
Publication Date: 2016
Housing First is now dominating discussions about how best to respond to homelessness among people with high and complex needs throughout the EU and in several countries within the OECD. Whilst recognised internationally as an effective model in addressing homelessness, little attention has been given as to whether Housing First also assists previously homeless people become more socially integrated into their communities. This paper reviews the...
Publisher: Policy Press
Publication Date: 2000
Although a number of initiatives since 1998 have reasserted the importance of low intensity support services. Through the findings of a systematic literature review, this book aims to provide information that should be useful in the development of the most appropriate low level services.
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Publication Date: 2003
This article examines the history of British homelessness research and its politicization over the past 40 years. The relationship between homelessness research and policy has been developing since the 1960s, and by the 1990s the majority of research was undertaken within the policy arena. In part, this has arisen because of the way in which research has been funded in the UK, with funding being dominated by government or those seeking to critici...
Publication Date: 1995
In 1992, a pilot project was set up to build two new foyers and introduce support services in five YMCA hostels with the aim of developing an integrated approach to youth homelessness and unemployment. This evaluation of the two-year pilot period was conducted by Deborah Quilgars (York University) and Isobel Anderson (Stirling University).
Publication Date: 2010
This study by Deborah Quilgars and Nicholas Pleace, Centre for Housing Policy - University of York, explores the extent, scale and regional distribution of a wide range of housing related support for those at risk of domestic violence. It explores access to housing advice, refuge provision, other specialist accommodation, access to settled accommodation and the role of floating support. The findings and recommendations in this report are those...
Publication Date: 2000
Despite some recent policy acknowledgement of the potential role of low intensity support services in assisting people to live independently, community care resources continue to be targeted mainly on high level, often crisis, interventions. Partly because of this continuing focus, there has been little consideration of the evidence of the value of low intensity services. The Centre for Housing Policy, University of York, has now undertaken a sys...
Publication Date: 2006
Shelter Inclusion Project represents a new approach to tackling antisocial behaviour and social exclusion. The scheme was launched in 2002 in partnership with Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council. The project was designed to provide an alternative model to present enforcement policies and residential schemes by offering a specialist floating support service to help households identify and deal with the causes of their behaviour and learn how to...
Organization: Centrepoint
Publication Date: 2011
As part of our ongoing drive to end youth homelessness, Centrepoint commissioned the University of York and Herriot-Watt University to look at the scale of the challenge of youth homelessness as well as the practical steps that can be taken to meet it. The research found that in 2008/9 - the most recent year for which figures are available - at least 78-80,000 young people experienced homelessness in the UK. This represents an increase of between...
Organization: Centre for Housing Policy, University of York
Publication Date: 2008
This study is the first UK-wide review of youth homelessness for a decade. Supported by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the review was conducted by the Centre for Housing Policy, University of York, in partnership with Centrepoint.
It follows significant policy developments across the UK in the last decade to address youth homelessness. The introduction of homelessness strategies has placed a new emphasis on prevention, paying explicit attention...