Research Handbook on Homelessness

Edited by Guy Johnson, Honorary Professor of Urban Housing and Homelessness, RMIT University, Australia, Dennis Culhane, Professor of Social Policy, University of Pennsylvania, US, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Professor of Housing and Social Policy, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK, Stephen Metraux, Professor of Public Policy, University of Delaware, US and Eoin O’Sullivan, Professor in Social Policy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

‘Homelessness and how we respond to it is a 21st century litmus test challenge for health and social equity. This synthesis of global perspectives reminds us that homelessness transcends geographic and cultural boundaries, as do its research champions. As exemplified throughout this insightful Research Handbook, research has a critical role to play in forging evidence-based solutions that tackle both the causes and consequences of homelessness, and gives voice to those who are too often invisible.’

• ContentsIntroduction to the Research Handbook on Homelessness 1Guy Johnson, Dennis Culhane, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Stephen Metraux andEoin O’SullivanPART I INTRODUCING KEY IDEAS1 Defining homelessness 12Volker Busch-Geertsema, Guy Johnson and Eoin O’Sullivan2 Homelessness enumeration: moving towards a demographic account 23James O’Donnell3 Researching homelessness: implications for policy and practice 40Eoin O’Sullivan, Nicholas Pleace, Volker Busch-Geertsema and MašaFilipovič Hrast4 The dynamics of homelessness 52Rosanna Scutella and Gavin A. Wood5 Welfare states and homelessness 72Lars Benjaminsen6 Predictive risk modelling and homelessness 81Rhema Vaithianathan and Chamari I. KithulgodaPART II EXPERIENCES OF HOMELESSNESS7 Women and homelessness 92Joanne Bretherton and Paula Mayock8 Preventing and ending youth homelessness in the US 103Amy Dworsky, Matthew Morton and Shannon Kugley9 The cost of homelessness 124Glen Bramley10 Regulating urban encampments 139Chris Herring11 Homelessness and institutional settings: an overview and an odyssey 154Stephen Metraux and Alexa Timmreck12 Homelessness systems in the USA 163Deborah K. Padgett13 Controlling homeless populations? The case of congregate hostels andshelters 177Lynne McMordie and Suzanne Fitzpatrick14 The effectiveness of permanent supportive housing for rough sleepers:a review of the research 189Tim Aubry and Maryann Roebuck15 The endurance, limitations and potential opportunities of charitableresponses to homelessness 212Cameron Parsell, Ella Kuskoff and Beth Watts-Cobbe16 Image control and public attitudes 223Maša Filipovič Hrast17 Homelessness and health: individual impacts 236Fiona Cuthill18 Single homelessness 252Nicholas Pleace19 Examining the links between homelessness and migration 264Juliet Watson, Sarah Taylor and Guy JohnsonPART III INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES OF COVID-19 ANDHOMELESSNESS20 COVID-19 and homelessness: Australia 280Hal Pawson21 COVID-19 and homelessness: Canada 293Nick Falvo22 COVID-19 and homelessness in Great Britain: building back better? 303Peter Mackie and Suzanne Fitzpatrick23 COVID-19 and trends in homelessness in Ireland 313Eoin O’Sullivan, Haley Curran, Emma Byrne and Mike Allen24 The impact of COVID-19 on homelessness in Japan 326Soshiro Yamada, Yusuke Kakita and Hiroshi Goto25 Shifting indoors: homelessness and the COVID-19 response in New Zealand 336Polly Atatoa-Carr, Carole McMinn, Kerry Hawkes and Julie Nelson26 COVID-19 and homelessness: Sweden 349Marcus Knutagård27 COVID-19 and homelessness: USA 360Thomas ByrnePART IV RESOLVING HOMELESSNESS28 Preventing and ending family homelessness 374Molly K. Richard and Marybeth Shinn29 Housing First and public policy 388Geoffrey Nelson30 Effective systems to end homelessness 406Eoin O’Sullivan31 Sustaining housing: reducing re-entries into homelessness 418Guy Johnson, Abigail Lewis and Fiona Carey32 Homelessness prevention 431Abe Oudshoorn and Amy Van Berkum