an article by Kesia Reeve (Sheffield Hallam University) published in People, Place and Policy Volume 11 Issue 3 (2018)
Abstract
50 years since the first screening of the powerful TV drama ‘Cathy Come Home’, and 30 years after the first homelessness legislation in the UK, this paper reflects on the continued invisibility of women’s homelessness in scholarly and policy debate.
It argues that homelessness is inherently gendered, yet rarely recognised as such, and that new conceptualisations of homelessness that take account of gender differentials is urgently needed.
Full text (PDF 10pp)
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Sunday, 18 March 2018
Tuesday, 17 January 2017
The Prevalence of Rough Sleeping and Sofa Surfing Amongst Young People in the UK
an article by Anna Clarke
(Cambridge Centre for Housing & Planning Research, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK) published in
Social Inclusion
Volume 4 Issue 4 (2016)
Abstract
Whilst data on statutory homelessness is well recorded in the UK, there is a lack of data on informal homelessness (such as ‘sofa surfing’) and rough sleeping, other than that which relies on partial information and street counts.
This paper presents findings from a recent online survey of young people and helps to fill this gap.
It found that rates of sofa surfing and rough sleeping among young people were much higher than previously thought. Twenty-six percent of young people (aged 16–25) had slept rough at some point in their life and 35 percent had ‘sofa surfed’ (stayed with friends or family on their floor or sofa because they had nowhere else to go).
The paper explores the implications of this for how we conceptualise homelessness. It suggests that homelessness may often be neither cause nor consequence of wider forms of exclusion, but that we may need to explore further the factors that enable some people to move swiftly out of homelessness more easily than others.
Full Text (downloadable PDF)
Abstract
Whilst data on statutory homelessness is well recorded in the UK, there is a lack of data on informal homelessness (such as ‘sofa surfing’) and rough sleeping, other than that which relies on partial information and street counts.
This paper presents findings from a recent online survey of young people and helps to fill this gap.
It found that rates of sofa surfing and rough sleeping among young people were much higher than previously thought. Twenty-six percent of young people (aged 16–25) had slept rough at some point in their life and 35 percent had ‘sofa surfed’ (stayed with friends or family on their floor or sofa because they had nowhere else to go).
The paper explores the implications of this for how we conceptualise homelessness. It suggests that homelessness may often be neither cause nor consequence of wider forms of exclusion, but that we may need to explore further the factors that enable some people to move swiftly out of homelessness more easily than others.
Full Text (downloadable PDF)
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