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Organization: Social Care Workforce Research Unit, King’s College London
Publication Date: 2015
Since the early 1990s, the government has invested hugely in tackling homelessness and its prevention and alleviation, and programmes and support for people who are homeless or at risk have expanded. There was little evidence for service-commissioners and practitioners, however, about the outcomes for homeless people who were resettled and their support needs over time. Resettlement is a more intense process than rehousing, and involves preparati...
Publication Date: 2006
A comparative study of the causes of new episodes of homelessness among people aged 50 years and over has been undertaken in Boston, Massachusetts, Melbourne, Australia and four English cities. This paper presents the findings from England, where information was collected from 131 respondents and their key-workers about the circumstances and problems that contributed to homelessness. Two-thirds of the respondents had never been homeless before. T...
Publication Date: 2000
This paper examines the connections between homelessness among older people and both evictions by statutory housing providers and repossessions by mortgage institutions. The evidence is from 45 single homeless people (among 313 in a succession of ethnographic studies) who reported that eviction made a contribution to their homelessness. Using preceding states and events as criteria, a taxonomy of these once-evicted older homeless people is propos...
Publication Date: 2001
This article examines the prevalence and causes of homelessness among older people. It reviews the histories of a sample of older people in Britain who slept on the streets and stayed in temporary hostels. Some had become homeless for the first time in old age, having been married and worked for many years. Others had spent most of their adult lives in hostels or on the streets. Different events and states triggered and contributed to homelessnes...
Publication Date: 2000
This report of the achievements of an experimental multiservice center in London for older street people begins with reviews of the types of long-term accommodation available for resettlement and the work of its outreach team, 24-hour open access rooms, and residential, assessment, and resettlement services. Two outcomes are examined: whether users returned to the streets and whether they were resettled in long-term housing. Those with alcohol de...
Publication Date: 2013
This paper examines the influences of biographical, behavioural, housing and neighbourhood attributes on housing satisfaction, settledness and tenancy sustainment for 400 single homeless people who were resettled into independent accommodation. It draws on evidence from FOR-HOME, a longitudinal study in London and three provincial English cities of resettlement outcomes over 18 months. There was a high rate of tenancy sustainment: after 15/18 mon...
Publication Date: 2003
This paper examines the housing and support needs of older homeless people when they are resettled. Evidence is from a longitudinal study of the resettlement of 64 older homeless people, which monitored their progress for two years after they were rehoused. The subjects were rehoused in various types of accommodation: independent and sheltered flats, shared houses and residential care homes. At the end of 24 months, 31% had either abandoned their...
Publication Date: 2001
BACKGROUND: An innovative residential centre in west London during 1997-1998 helped older rough sleepers leave the streets and resettle in conventional homes. Many clients presented with multiple physical illnesses complicated by chronicity and poor management. The centre initially experienced difficulties in obtaining health care for the residents, briefly relied on an A&E department for treatment of serious and minor ailments, and lat...
Publication Date: 2002
Over the last 15 years, services for rough sleepers and other homeless people have developed considerably in Britain. The number of people sleeping on the streets has reduced, there are many more outreach teams, hostel accommodation has improved, and much more active resettlement preparation and follow-up tenancy support are in place. In addition, special measures have been taken to reduce the number following recognised pathways into homelessn...
Publication Date: 2000
Rough sleeping in Britain has a long history, and interventions have alternated between legal sanctions and humanitarian concern. This paper critically examines recent changes in homeless policies and services, with particular reference to the needs of older people who sleep rough. The characteristics and problems of the group are first described. Single homeless people were formerly accommodated in direct-access hostels but, from the 1970s, indi...
Publication Date: 2003
Homelessness has received a great deal of attention since the mid-1990s from policy makers, service providers, the media and the public. Many and diverse reports have been written about the problems and needs of homeless people, and about the services that help them. This second edition of the Homelessness Factfile draws on these and many other sources to provide accessible and up-to-date information. The Factfile has two main themes: the ch...
Publication Date: 2004
This report on the challenges presently facing Londonʼs hostels for single homeless men and womenand their future roles was commissioned by the Pan-London Providers Group of voluntary sectorhomelessness organisations (Broadway, Centrepoint, Depaul Trust, Look Ahead Housing and Care,The Novas Group, St Mungoʼs and Thames Reach Bondway). Requests were also made forinformation about the changing provision and roles of hostels over the last ten years...
Publication Date: 2011
This report presents the main findings of the ESRC-funded FOR-HOME study of the experiences of 400 single homeless people aged 16+ years who were resettled from hostels and other temporary accommodation into independent tenancies in London, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire. They were interviewed in depth on three occasions over up to 18 months. The report also sets out the practice and policy implications of the findings and makes evidence-based sug...
Publication Date: 2001
Although the aging homeless are relatively invisible in the media and throughout the literature, it is estimated that twenty percent of the U.S. homeless and thirty-three percent of London's homeless are aged fifty and over. This article explores the link between the law, aging, and the homeless. The historical evolution of homelessness in Western civilization is traced as the moral economy of charity gave way to the criminalization of this vulne...
Publication Date: 2005
Objectives. This article presents findings from a study of the causes of homelessness among newly homeless older people in selected urban areas of the United States, England, and Australia. Methods. Interviews were conducted in each country with 122 older people who had become homeless during the last 2 years. Information was also collected from the subjects' key workers about the circumstances and problems that contributed to homelessness....