How might the COVID-19 pandemic affect homelessness and rough sleeping in the longer term?
Background
The questions that will help us to grow our understanding to support the recovery from the pandemic, and to inform the medium and long term strategy for ‘living with COVID’, in areas relevant to DLUHC responsibilities.
Next steps
The lead contacts are: Lesley Smith, Senior Principal Research Officer, Analysis, Research and Co-ordination Unit, Analysis and Data Directorate: Lesley.Smith@levellingup.gov.uk and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: psChiefScientificAdviser@levellingup.gov.uk.
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Topics
Related UKRI funded projects
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COVID-19 and rough sleepers: a randomised controlled trial to evaluate models of housing and support to reduce infection and homelessness
As part of the government's response to COVID-19, 15,000 rough sleepers have now been offered self-contained temporary accommodation in England, mainly in hotels. This approach, which has involved the decanting of hostel...
Funded by: COVID
Why might this be relevant?
The project specifically addresses the question by evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of permanent housing on the risk of COVID-19 infection and housing stability for people experiencing homelessness.
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COVID-19 impacts on children under 5 in temporary accommodation-co-developing solutions from lockdown to the recovery phase-A mixed-methods study
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has and will have huge direct health and economic implications as highlighted by the media, but there are and likely will be also a myriad of significant indirect health, social, and e...
Funded by: COVID
Why might this be relevant?
The project explores the impacts of COVID-19 on children under 5 in temporary accommodation, which is indirectly related to the question.
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Homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic: homeless migrants in a global crisis
People experiencing homelessness are disproportionately impacted by coronavirus. Despite government efforts to place rough sleepers in hotels to contain the spread of the disease, many migrants sleeping rough with No Rec...
Funded by: COVID
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on the experiences of homeless migrants during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is not directly related to the question.