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investigate university students' awareness of homelessness. Previous research (Breeze and Dean 2012; 2013) has shown that … homelessness charities often utilise stereotypical images in their fundraising campaigns, focusing on the arresting issue of rough … sleeping (rooflessness) as opposed to other, more widespread experiences of homelessness. In drawing 'what homelessness looks …
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It is generally believed that the increased incidence of homelessness in the US has arisen from broad societal factors … paper reports on a comprehensive test of the alternate hypothesis that variations in homelessness arise from changed … on homelessness in US urban areas – census counts, shelter bed counts, records of transfer payments, and administrative …
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Although a desired rehabilitation goal, research continues to document that community integration significantly lags behind housing stability success rates for people of a variety of ages who used to be homeless. While accessibility to resources is an environmental factor that may promote or...
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urgent political problems imposed on the urban poor in the United States that harm health: most notably, homelessness …
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This report summarizes the current knowledge base and identifies key areas for future research related to human services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations. It focuses on three types of services funded by the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S....
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This brief summarizes the current knowledge base and identifies key areas for future research related to human services for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations. It focuses on three types of services funded by the Administration for Children and Families in the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165996
Homelessness is part of the lives of many people. But almost no one is homeless for all or most of his or her life. The … median shelter homeless spell is well under a month, and even “chronic homelessness” officially entails spells of a year or … so. I model homelessness as part of people’s lives in a dynamic stochastic framework in continuous time. I can explain …
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concerning solutions to address the recurring homelessness social problem, while a third, more moderate one contributed in …
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This paper aims to explore the commonality of social policies on homelessness between Japan and England and to discuss … the role of social policy in response to the recent emergence of homelessness throughout the world. Japan and England are … regarded as different types of welfare state, and policies towards homelessness in both countries contrast sharply with each …
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homelessness, though the way it exercises that power has taken new forms. Government by …'legislation';,'regularization';and'subven tions';. The paper focuses on the central state's approach to initiatives against homelessness, with special regard to its … understanding that homelessness is not a necessary feature of a modern nation, and that it would be possible for the central state …
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