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What are the most important factors protecting people from homelessness and rough sleeping?

Background

To facilitate greater collaboration on research around the drivers of homelessness and rough sleeping, and further explore social, economic and fiscal costs. And to build the evidence on the most effective measures to support people to remain off the streets.

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:

DLUHC Areas of research interest GOVUK

Research fields

Related UKRI funded projects

  • 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 evaluates the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of permanent housing on the risk of COVID-19 infection and housing stability for people experiencing homelessness, which is relevant to the question.

  • Making Every Community Asset Count: Improving Health and Reducing Inequalities for People Experiencing Homelessness

    As well as sleeping rough, people who are homeless may live in shelters, hostels, and temporary or unsuitable accommodation. Before becoming homeless, people have often faced sustained periods of severe difficulties, whi...

    Funded by: AHRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project addresses the factors protecting people from homelessness and rough sleeping through a comprehensive approach.

  • Using technology to improve outcomes for roughsleepers

    Homelessness is a £1billion/year problem in the UK (Crisis,2019). Much of this investment goes into reactive support (e.g. policing, temporary accommodation, floating support) which ultimately keeps those individu...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on using technology to support rough sleepers, which is a partial answer to the question of factors protecting people from homelessness.

  • Cardiff University And Llamau Limited

    To investigate how the interplay between characteristics of young people with experiences of homelessness and service provision can you optimised to foster effective intervention....

    Funded by: Innovate UK

  • Building and evidencing community asset partnerships in housing and health to address health disparities in North East North CumbriaAH/X009211/1

    Groups that experience the worst health outcomes include people in coastal communities (like in the North East and North Cumbria), experiencing homelessness, dependent on drugs or alcohol, vulnerable migrants, people in ...

    Funded by: AHRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on investigating and co-producing integrated, community-led, asset-based approaches to supporting people with multiple and complex needs who have been homeless, which is not directly relevant to the question.