What are the key economic and social costs of homelessness, including the impacts on children, and can they be quantified?
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: [email protected] and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: [email protected].
Source
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
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Research fields
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
Lead research organisation: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
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.
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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
Lead research organisation: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on characteristics of young people with experiences of homelessness and service provision, which partially addresses the impacts on children and social costs of homelessness.
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The role of housing and housing providers in tackling poverty experienced by young people in the UK
This research looks at what works in tackling poverty amongst young people (aged 16 to 25) who do not live in the parental home, with a focus on the role that housing providers can play. Measures to address poverty in th...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Cambridge
Why might this be relevant?
The project looks at what works in tackling poverty amongst young people who do not live in the parental home, but does not specifically address the economic and social costs of homelessness.