Synthesizing homelessness research: trends, lessons and prospects

Anderson, Isobel

doi:10.1002/casp.721

Cited by 29 publications

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“…Anderson 2003;Connolly 2000;Williams 2003). This literature does not provide a critical engagement with what it means to be a woman on the street.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Fear, romance and transience in the lives of homeless women

Radley¹,

Hodgetts²,

Cullen

2006

Social & Cultural Geography

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This paper takes up the question of what it means to be a woman who lives on the streets and in hostels as a homeless person in London. Using qualitative data from three women respondents, the analysis focuses upon their reasons for becoming and staying homeless. We address issues concerning the women's perceptions of danger and safety on the streets, the way they construct their role as women in this situation and their options for alternative ways of living in the future. We point up the strategies used by these women to survive on the streets (to remain transient), and relate these to discussions of women's occupancy of public space and their scope to claim equal regard among women in general.

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“…Anderson 2003;Connolly 2000;Williams 2003). This literature does not provide a critical engagement with what it means to be a woman on the street.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Fear, romance and transience in the lives of homeless women

Radley¹,

Hodgetts²,

Cullen

2006

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…54 Individual factors or characteristics have been categorized as: (a) predisposing factors (e.g., demographics and health beliefs); (b) enabling factors (e.g., family and community resources); and (c) need (e.g., symptoms and functioning). 21 Among homeless persons, identity could also have an impact on the utilization of services, in addition to individual characteristics. According to Osborne, 55 people who possess a strong homeless identity should be less inclined to use services.…”

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“…20 Several authors have suggested conducting such longitudinal population studies in order to gain a better knowledge and deeper understanding of the usage trajectory of these services. [21][22][23] However, some long-term follow-up studies examining the utilization of services by different types of cohorts (i.e., not necessarily homeless people) have been published. For instance, research has been conducted on Americans using general health and mental health services over a 12-month period, 24 among persons presenting psychiatric disorders and using these services over 1 year, 25 and among users of emergency psychiatric services over 5 years.…”

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Health and Mental Health Care Utilization by Clients of Resources for Homeless Persons in Quebec City and Montreal, Canada: A 5-Year Follow-Up Study

Bonin

Fournier

Blais

et al. 2009

J Behav Health Serv Res

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The objective of this cohort study is to describe the service utilization by clients of homeless resources in Quebec and Montreal (Canada) over a 5-year period. Participants (N = 426) were recruited from a survey conducted in 1999 about clients' utilization of resources intended for homeless people in Montreal and Quebec. Data analyzed in this study were also drawn from three administrative databanks managed by the Quebec health care system. Results revealed that: (1) in general, mental health services are less used than physical health services; (2) generally, women, older persons, nonhomeless persons, and persons with mental health problems utilized proportionately more health services; and (3) participants involved in this study tend to continue using services over years in a system where health services are free. These findings are discussed in terms of long-term service utilization by clients of homeless resources.

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“…For example, the concepts of structure and agency, and the interaction between the two, feature prominently in the UK homelessness literature (Anderson and Christian 2003;Clapham 2002Clapham , 2003 and theories from other disciplines, such as psychology, may also have a role in explaining individual experiences of homelessness (Anderson 2003). Such a micro-level analysis could not be developed in this paper but its centrality to a full understanding of the complexity of contemporary homelessness is acknowledged.…”

Section: Homelessness State Intervention and Models Of Welfare: Altementioning

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Housing, Homelessness and the Welfare State in the Uk

Anderson

2004

European Journal of Housing Policy

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This paper re-examines the role of the state in relation to homelessness in the UK. Taking a long term and macro-level perspective, the paper takes changing levels of poverty and inequality as broad indicators of the effectiveness of differing approaches to welfare, and looks at trends in homelessness across three eras of welfare. The analysis draws on theories of the state and the welfare state to explain differing levels of homelessness and to draw conclusions as to possible future pathways. State intervention in housing in the UK preceded the development of the welfare state, but homelessness intervention lagged behind during a long period of welfare expansion and consolidation. This early period bequeathed a legacy of social democratic policies which had significantly reduced poverty and income inequality, improved housing conditions and introduced legislation to protect households from homelessness. During the Conservative neo-liberal period (1979-97) welfare retrenchment was significant and resulted in real and substantial increases in poverty and inequality. The homelessness crisis resulted in further intervention in homelessness, despite retrenchment in housing. Since 1997, New Labour has claimed to implement a Third Way in social policy. However, this has been limited in its distinctiveness from the Conservative era (rolling out neo-liberalism, rather than rolling back welfare). Nevertheless, state intervention and welfare outcomes can and do change over time and space. Neo-liberalism is neither inevitable nor global, though it is proving to be enduring and widespread. Homelessness levels can be an important and valuable indicator of the most extreme manifestations of inequality and of the differing impact of different welfare regimes.Homelessness, poverty, welfare regimes, UK,

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Synthesizing homelessness research: trends, lessons and prospects

Cited by 29 publications

References 18 publications

Fear, romance and transience in the lives of homeless women

Fear, romance and transience in the lives of homeless women

Health and Mental Health Care Utilization by Clients of Resources for Homeless Persons in Quebec City and Montreal, Canada: A 5-Year Follow-Up Study

Housing, Homelessness and the Welfare State in the Uk

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