‘It's just like we're going around in circles and going back to the same thing …’: The Dynamics of Women's Unresolved Homelessness

Mayock, Paula; Sheridan, Sarah; Parker, Sarah

doi:10.1080/02673037.2014.991378

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“…It is widely acknowledged, that the prevalence rate of substance use in the homeless population is higher than in the housed population (Kemp et al, 2006;McVicar et al, 2015) and that substance use can be a predictor of or reason for becoming homeless (Mayock and Sheridan, 2012;McVicar et al, 2015). In addition to being one possible cause of homelessness, (increased) substance use can also be a result of living on the streets or in homelessness hostels (Mayock et al, 2015). Research that specifically focuses on homeless women found relatively high levels of alcohol and drug use, although notable variations by subgroups of homeless women exist (Wright and Tompkins, 2006).…”

Section: Substance Usementioning

confidence: 99%

The Health of Homeless Women

Wolf

Anderson

Dries

et al. 2016

Women’s Homelessness in Europe

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Examines the health of homeless women, which is an under-researched topic in most European countries. It presents an overview of the available European research evidence on the health of homeless women and the factors that influence homeless women’s access to health services in different national health care and welfare systems. Although the knowledge base is patchy, thus limiting the extent to which comparisons can be made between countries, there is considerable evidence of relatively poor health among homeless women. Furthermore, the effectiveness with which the health care needs of homeless women are met depends, to a large degree, on enabling factors such as the nature and accessibility of national health care services. The chapter concludes that there is considerable scope for further research within and across European countries in order to better establish how women’s homelessness affects their health and how homeless women experience health care services across Europe

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Section: Substance Usementioning

confidence: 99%

The Health of Homeless Women

Wolf

Anderson

Dries

et al. 2016

Women’s Homelessness in Europe

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“…Our knowledge of older women experiencing housing crises is drawn from a small number of studies and as such our understanding of the dynamics culminating in homelessness, the experiences of older women, and analytic attention to appropriate service responses is limited. The historical absence of gender in the analysis of homelessness remains a contemporary feature despite feminist scholarship over decades highlighting this gap (Wardhaugh 1999;Basptista 2010;Mayock et al 2015). Emerging from the small number of Australian studies are important features within women's life circumstances that have culminated in homelessness.…”

Section: Literature On Older Women and Homelessnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There remains considerable debate on the use of point-in-time enumerations to measure homelessness effectively (Chamberlain & MacKenzie 2014). Feminist scholarship adds to this discussion by highlighting the hidden nature of women's homelessness (Baptista 2010;Mayock et al 2015). Vulnerable older women are more likely to be staying with friends, living in a car, living under the threat of violence in their home or remaining hidden from public view.…”

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Addressing older women's homelessness: service and housing models

Petersen¹

2015

Aust J Social Issues

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There is limited understanding of the nature and extent of older women's homelessness in Australia and how it can be alleviated. The aim of this project is to ascertain the combination of program and housing models that is likely to be most effective in addressing older women's homelessness. The data comprise interviews and correspondence with 14 Australian and international stakeholders. The findings draw on insight from housing, gerontology and gender studies, and highlight the need to match welfare and housing programs with the diverse life experiences and current needs of older women. Alongside flagship models of practice in housing provision are assumptions within housing and homelessness sectors of what older women need. There is a lack of understanding that most older women in housing crisis have limited knowledge of the welfare sector, and with provision of mainstream housing (and community aged care if needed) will live independently. Traditional homelessness programs and specialised supportive housing, associated with both seniors and homelessness sectors, are appropriate for women who have lived with ongoing disruption and substantive health concerns. Addressing older women's homelessness in Australia requires a range of services and housing responses, with increased attention given to a discourse of housing -affordable, secure housingrather than continued discourse of homelessness.

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“…In our research we have repeatedly encountered women who are separated from their children because of homelessness, either because their children have been removed by the local authority, or because women place their children temporarily in the care of others (grandparents, the child's father) while they seek suitable housing (see also Mayock et al, 2015).…”

Section: Homelessness and Motherhoodmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women and homelessness: putting gender back on the agenda

Reeve¹

2018

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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.

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‘It's just like we're going around in circles and going back to the same thing …’: The Dynamics of Women's Unresolved Homelessness

Cited by 59 publications

References 45 publications

The Health of Homeless Women

The Health of Homeless Women

Addressing older women's homelessness: service and housing models

Women and homelessness: putting gender back on the agenda

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