Evidence-based Strategies to Address Homelessness

This volume focuses on practical strategies to address the problem of homelessness in the USA and globally. It takes a clinical sociology perspective to analyze ways to help communities develop humane social policies and practices to prevent homelessness in the first place and design strategies to handle encampments with unsheltered homeless people. It addresses a major gap in the literature that has so far quantified the number of unsheltered people or discussed their etiology and the consequences of homelessness. It critiques the official data on homelessness in the USA for not taking into account the numerous housing distressed populations. The volume includes chapters from esteemed experts who share their views about positive strategies that communities could use to prevent homelessness. It shares best practices that government leaders, policymakers, organizational administrators, researchers, practitioners, and advocates can use that have produced positive results. Promoting a human rights approach, this volume explores ways that clinical sociology has contributed to increasing the health and well-being of both individuals and communities. This is an important read for researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers working on or with homeless populations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction.- Breaking the Cycle: Innovative Strategies and Systemic Solutions to Homelessness.- A Whole Community Approach to Preventing and Ending Homelessness: The Role of Public Health Agencies.- Homelessness and its Complexity: How Can Governments Overhaul Policy to Achieve Better Outcome.- A Brief Review of Homelessness in the United States.- Post Disaster Housing and the Challenges Faced by Older Adults: A Human Rights Perspective from Hatay.- Homelessness Strategies and Solutions: A Clinical Sociology Approach Building Power, Claiming Rights: Homeless Unions and the Law.- The Trauma of Removal: Gendered Pathways into Hidden Homelessness After Leaving Violence.- Evidence Based Strategies to Address Homelessness.- Shelters are Not a Solution.- Integrated Pathways out of Homelessness: Evaluating the ORIZONTAS Housing.- Breaking Out of the Shelters: Reorienting Homelessness Policy toward Housing in Budapest.- Three Housing Characteristics That Impact Health and Stability for Individuals Emerging from Homelessness.- Scaling What Works: Lessons from Idaho s First Single-Site Housing First Initiative.- Making Bad a Little Better.- Reconciling Age Friendly Cities & Communities with Hostility Toward Homelessness.- The Homeless World Cup: Global Empowerment of Homeless Athletes.- Ending Homelessness Among Young Adults: Experiences and perspectives of young adults with lived experiences of homelessness in New Hampshire.- Homeless Encampments.- Systems of Care for the Homeless: A Social Development Approach.- We Can t Arrest Ourselves Out of Homelessness: Rethinking Policing Through Caring Relationships.- Evidence-Based Practices to End Homelessness.- The Social Construction of Homelessness Policies. Autorenportrait Yvonne Vissing is Professor of Healthcare Studies and Founding Director of the Center for Childhood & Youth Studies, at Salem State University, Massachusetts. She started her work on homelessness in 1990, which makes her work in the field over 35 years long. She has published two books on homelessness - Out of Sight, Out of Mind (University of Kentucky Press 1997) and Changing the Paradigm of Homelessness (Routledge 2020) and also published dozens of articles about homelessness, as peer-reviewed articles, chapters in books, and on social media platforms. She has given many keynote presentations at different conferences on homelessness, especially on the impact of housing distress on children and families. She was the winner of the social action film on Homelessness in New Hampshire at the One Heart One World Festival by the Ben and Jerry's Foundation. She was awarded the distinguished career award by the American Sociological Association's section on Children and Youth. She served on the board of the National Coalition for the Homeless and the New Hampshire Coalition for the Homeless, and continues to work with organizations and nonprofit organizations about youth homelessness and community strategies to prevent housing distress, including The Initiative for Civility in Everyday Life, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization. Vissing is an international human rights expert who has published 33 books in the field.