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Author(s): Hal Pawson, Chris Martin, Alistair Sisson, Sian Thompson, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Alex Marsh
Organization: City Futures Research Centre (University of New South Wales, Sydney), ACOSS-UNSW Poverty and Inequality Partnership
Publication Date: 2021
This report is the latest published by the Poverty and Inequality Partnership between the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) and UNSW Sydney. It has been researched and written for the partnership by representatives of the City Futures Research Centre at UNSW Sydney, Heriot-Watt University in Scotland and the University of Bristol in the UK. It is also supported by Mission Australia, National Shelter and Queensland Shelter.
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Author(s): Hal Pawson, Cameron Parsell, Trish Hill, Edgar Liu
Organization: Launch Housing
Publication Date: 2018
This study provides an independent analysis of homelessness in Australia. It analyses changes in the scale and nature of the problem and investigates the incidence of the many social, economic and policy drivers of homelessness.
The findings of this study can be summarised in terms of: (1) the changing scope and pattern of homelessness (2) the nature of broader social and economic drivers that condition the risk of homelessness, especially for...
Author(s): Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Hal Pawson, Glen Bramley, Steve Wilcox, Beth Watts, Jenny Wood
Organization: Crisis, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Publication Date: 2018
The homelessness monitor is a longitudinal study providing an independent analysis of the homelessness impacts of recent economic and policy developments in England. It considers both the consequences of the post-2007 economic and housing market recession, and the subsequent recovery, and also the impact of policy changes. This seventh annual report updates our account of how homelessness stands in England in 2018, or as close to 2018 as data ava...
Author(s): Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Hal Pawson, Glen Bramley, Steve Wilcox, Beth Watts, Jenny Wood
Organization: Crisis, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Publication Date: 2018
The homelessness monitor is a longitudinal study providing an independent analysis of the homelessness impacts of recent economic and policy developments in England. It considers both the consequences of the post-2007 economic and housing market recession, and the subsequent recovery, and also the impact of policy changes. This seventh annual report updates our account of how homelessness stands in England in 2018, or as close to 2018 as data ava...
Author(s): Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Hal Pawson, Glen Bramley, Steve Wilcox, Beth Watts
Organization: Crisis
Publication Date: 2016
The homelessness monitor series is a longitudinal study providing an independent analysis of the homelessness impacts of recent economic and policy developments in England and elsewhere in the UK.1 This fifth annual report updates our account of how homelessness stands in England in 2016, or as close to 2016 as data availability allows.
Author(s): Hal Pawson, Vivienne Milligan, Edgar Liu, Peter Phibbs, Steven Rowley
Organization: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURi)
Publication Date: 2015
Reliable measures of provider efficiency and effectiveness are fundamental in enabling governments to determine how best to deliver social housing services. As confirmed by this research, however, Australia’s existing suite of official social housing performance measures is seriously inadequate in this respect and lags well behind other service realms (Pawson et al. 2014; CRC 2013a, p.15). The aim of this project, therefore, is to develop and tri...
Author(s): Vivienne Milligan, Kath Hulse, Hal Pawson, Paul Flatau, Edgar Liu
Organization: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
Publication Date: 2015
Governments in Australia and internationally have increasingly been turning to third sector (i.e. ‘not-for-profit’ non-government) organisations to deliver social services including health, education, and community services. This has included placing growing reliance on not-for-profit (NFP) providers to procure housing and deliver housing management services to those whose needs cannot be met by the market. As such a shift marks a fu ndamental ch...
Author(s): Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Hal Pawson, Glen Bramley, Steve Wilcox
Publication Date: 2012
The Homelessness Monitor: Scotland 2012 is the first report of a four-year longitudinal study that provides a 'baseline' account of how homelessness stands in Scotland in 2012. The study monitors the impact of the economic downturn and policy developments on homelessness in Scotland. Key findings from the report are: - In sharp contrast to a rising trend in England, statutory homelessness applications have dropped by 19% in Scotland over t...
Author(s): Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Hal Pawson, Glen Bramley, Steve Wilcox
Publication Date: 2012
The Homelessness Monitor: England 2012 is the second year report of a major five-year independent study into the impact of the economic downturn and policy developments homelessness in England. Key findings from the research are: - Visible forms of homelessness are continuing to rise sharply: the number of rough sleepers in England rose by 23% over the last year. Homelessness is growing most rapidly in London and the South; - Hidden home...
Author(s): Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Hal Pawson, Glen Bramley, Steve Wilcox
Publication Date: 2011
The homelessness monitor is a three year study that will provide an independent analysis of the impact on homelessness of recent economic and policy developments in England. This year 1 report provides a baseline account of how homelessness stands to date in 2011, and analyses key trends in the preceding period
Author(s): Hal Pawson, Emma Davidson
Publication Date: 2007
Since 1997 New Labour administrations have seen homelessness as a manifestation of social exclusion. Initially, ministerial attention focused on curbing street homelessness, exemplified most prominently by the Rough Sleepers Initiative. Subsequently, since 2003, the focus of the policy has widened to the promotion of a more pro-active, preventative approach in local authorities’ homelessness work. This fits with the ‘activist state’ approach whi...
Author(s): Hal Pawson, Emma Davidson, Gina Netto
Publication Date: 2007
Preventing and tackling homelessness is a priority for the Scottish Executive and prevention was a key concern of the Executive’s Homelessness Task Force (HTF). The Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 requires local authorities (LAs) to draw up strategies for tackling homelessness. Under official guidance, homelessness prevention should form a key theme within such strategies. Under this theme, strategies need to specify interventions which will support...
Author(s): Gina Netto, Cathie Fancy, Hal Pawson, Delia Lomax, Satnam Singh, Sinead Power
Publication Date: 2004
The final report of the Homelessness Task Force had identified the need to gain a deeper understanding of the experiences of homeless people in Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities in Scotland. To address this, the Scottish Executive Development Department commissioned new research to examine the provision and use of homelessness services in these communities. This study will inform the work of the homelessness monitoring group and the on-...
Author(s): Hal Pawson
Publication Date: 2007
High profile commitments to stemming homelessness have been integral to New Labour's emphasis on promoting social inclusion since 1997. During this period official policy has favoured an increasingly assertive approach in this area as exemplified by the successful post-1998 programmes to reduce street homelessness. The period since 2002 has seen a broader ministerial drive to reduce homelessness, mainly through encouraging local authorities (LAs)...
Author(s): Hal Pawson, Gina Netto, Colin Jones, Fiona Wager, Cathie Fancy, Delia Lomax
Publication Date: 2007
This research was commissioned in 2004 to investigate the practical implementation of homelessness prevention on the part of local authorities and their partner agencies. The main objectives were to:
evaluate the effectiveness of different approaches to preventing homelessness;
provide evidence on the value for money of homelessness prevention work;
produce a good practice guide on homelessness prevention; and
make recommendations on the future...
Author(s): Hal Pawson, Gina Netto, Colin Jones
Organization: HRSDC-HPS
Publication Date: 2006
The two main objectives of this guide are to: - summarize what is meant by "homelessness prevention" and its implications for the ways that local authorities deliver relevant services, and - show how the homelessness prevention ethos can be delivered in practice The guide focuses on the six "homelessness prevention" activities shown by research as being those most commonly operated by local authorities: - housing advice - rent deposit schemes - f...