Article examples [about homelessness] on housing issues and the associated housing research objectives/ questions

Article examples [about homelessness] on housing issues and the associated housing research objectives/ questions 

Article 1: Peter K. Mackie (2015) Homelessness Prevention and the Welsh Legal Duty: Lessons for International Policies, Housing Studies, 30:1, 40-59, DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.927055.

 About housing issues

“Across the developed world, there has been a paradigm shift away from warehousing homeless people in temporary accommodation for long periods of time and towards prevention and rapid response-focussed interventions. Studies have proven the benefits of homelessness prevention and rapid response, and this has added great momentum to the policy direction. However, Culhane et al. (2011) argue that homelessness prevention has been pursued with vigour without pausing to systematically examine how the approach fits alongside existing systems. Moreover, academics have begun to think more critically about the prevention turn, questioning its implementation and identifying its deficiencies (Burt et al., 2007; Busch-Geertsema & Fitzpatrick, 2008; Culhane et al., 2011; Parsell & Marston, 2012)”

 

About research objectives and research questions

“Given the growth in policy and academic interest, this section of the paper draws upon key studies to provide a brief overview of what is known about homelessness prevention: the concept is defined; reasons for the paradigm shift are considered; and emerging criticisms of the concept are identified”

 

Article 2: Anthony Warnes & Maureen Crane (2006): The Causes of Homelessness Among Older People in England, Housing Studies, 21:3, 401-421. 

About housing issues

“Through previous research by the authors, it had been learnt that many people who become homeless in mid and later life have never been homeless before, raising questions about why this happens and why Britain’s elaborate welfare services do not prevent the outcome”;

 About research objectives and research questions

 “The aims of the three-nation study were to increase understanding of the reasons for homelessness among older people, and to contribute to the development of prevention practice. The study was led by the authors, and project teams of the collaborating organisations in Boston and Melbourne participated in the research design and implementation. The conceptual model underpinning the study was that homelessness is a function of structural and policy factors, health and welfare service organisation and delivery deficiencies, and personal problems, incapacities and behaviour. By studying the incidence of older homelessness in three countries with contrasting welfare and philanthropic regimes, it was reasoned that valuable insights would be obtained of the relative contributions of the policy, service and personal factors”;

 

Article 3: Chris Chamberlain & Guy Johnson (2018) From long-term homelessness to stable housing: investigating ‘liminality’, Housing Studies, 33:8, 1246-1263, DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2018.1424806.

About housing issues

“There is a substantial body of literature that accepts that becoming homeless is best understood as a process (for a review, see: Chamberlain & Johnson, 2013), but much less has been written about the process of exiting from homelessness”

About research objectives and research questions

“This paper outlines a conceptual framework to investigate the process by which people exit from long-term homelessness, using the concept of ‘liminality’.”

 

“The term ‘liminality’ has been used in a number of different ways (Thomassen, 2009), but we use it refer to people feeling like ‘outsiders’ following rehousing. Three potential dimensions of liminality are identified: ‘material’, ‘relational’ and ‘psychological’. The material dimension covers how people feel about their housing. The relational area focuses on people’s relations with friends and relatives. The psychological aspect covers how people manage the stigma of homelessness”;

 

“To investigate whether people experience liminality requires in-depth information on people’s experiences following rehousing. The paper draws on 157 interviews undertaken over 2 years with 64 individuals who had experienced long-term homelessness. At the final interview, all of them were housed and most (87%) had been housed for 12 months or longer”;