Pathways into Multiple Exclusion Homelessness in Seven UK Cities

Fitzpatrick, Suzanne; Bramley, Glen; Johnsen, Sarah

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“…Whilst previous theories stressed either a microsociological focus on individual vulnerabilities and marginalisation processes, or structural factors such as poverty and housing affordability, more recent theories emphasise that homelessness is produced through complex mechanisms in interplay between both structural and individual factors Fitzpatrick et al, 2013). From a critical realist perspective, Fitzpatrick argues that homelessness is shaped by factors on the structural, institutional, interpersonal and individual levels.…”

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Testing a Typology of Homelessness Across Welfare Regimes: Shelter Use in Denmark and the USA

Benjaminsen

Andrade

2015

Housing Studies

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This article compares patterns of homeless shelter use in Denmark and the USA. Combining data from homeless shelters in Denmark with population registers, we find that the prevalence of shelter use is substantially lower in Denmark than in the USA. A cluster analysis of shelter stays identifies three types of users similar to findings from US research: the transitionally, episodically and chronically homeless. However, the transitionally homeless in Denmark have a higher tendency of suffering from mental illness and substance abuse than the transitionally homeless in the USA. The results support Stephens and Fitzpatrick' hypothesis that countries with more extensive welfare systems and lower levels of poverty have lower levels of homelessness, mainly amongst those with complex support needs, whereas in countries with less extensive welfare systems homelessness affects broader groups and is more widely associated with poverty and housing affordability problems.

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Section: Homelessness and Welfare Regimesmentioning

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Testing a Typology of Homelessness Across Welfare Regimes: Shelter Use in Denmark and the USA

Benjaminsen

Andrade

2015

Housing Studies

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“…These have found homeless young people to have very high rate of vulnerability-missing school, mental health problems or a history of having run away from home as a child (Hodgson, Shelton, & van den Bree, 2014;Quilgars et al, 2008). A high degree of overlap has been found between experience of homelessness and other domains of deep exclusion such as institutional care, childhood trauma, substance misuse, begging, street drinking, sex work, or 'survival' shoplifting (Fitzpatrick, Bramley, & Johnson, 2012;Fitzpatrick & Johnsen, 2011). A key aspect to debates around homelessness therefore concerns the nature and direction of causation.…”

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The Prevalence of Rough Sleeping and Sofa Surfing Amongst Young People in the UK

Clarke

2016

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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.

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“…There is now considerable evidence that meaningful social groups can provide psychological resources that people can draw on to maintain and promote health and well-being, which may be particularly important during periods of stress or life transitions . This may be especially relevant in people who are experiencing homelessness, given their exclusion from mainstream society and their lack of social resources (Edgar et al, 2000;Fitzpatrick et al, 2012;Pleace, 1998).…”

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“…Although previous research focused on examining homelessness from either the structural level or an individual level, there has been a recent consensus that the integration of both approaches is necessary to understand homelessness. One way in which such integration has been achieved is by proposing that broad structural factors create the conditions within which homelessness may occur, while individual and social factors push people across a certain threshold modified by those conditions (Clapham, 2003;Fitzpatrick, 2005;Fitzpatrick et al, 2012). One aspect of this shift is the acknowledgement that social and structural factors (e.g.…”

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“…Such factors include family breakdown, interpersonal violence, childhood abuse, low social support, and small support networks (Buhrich, Hodder, & Teesson, 2000;Calsyn & Morse, 1991;Fitzpatrick et al, 2012). Interpersonal factors have also been highlighted as a key, and at times a necessary factor, in transitioning out of homelessness (Jones, Shier, & Graham, 2012;MacKnee & Mervyn, 2002).…”

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Transitions through homelessness: the impact of psychosocial factors on well-being and outcomes in a homeless sample

Walter¹

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Homelessness is a complex social issue that is of increasing concern to most developed nations.Homelessness is more than not having a house; it is a form of social exclusion and carries significant physical, psychological, and social challenges. The broad aim of the current thesis was to investigate how the psychological and social aspects of the homeless experience can influence outcomes, such as well-being. In particular, the research focuses on processes related to social categories, social identities, and social support of people, as people transition through homeless accommodation services.The first empirical chapters (Chapter 4 and 5) focus on the impact of self-categorization as homeless. Study 1 (Chapter 4) was a qualitative and quantitative cross-sectional study with 119 residents of homeless accommodation services in South-East Queensland. Results demonstrated that while the majority of participants accepted the homeless label (55%), a large portion of residents (31%) rejected the homeless label, or were ambivalent (14%). Respondents who rejected the homeless label reported greater personal well-being and lower negative mood symptoms than participants who accepted the label. Study 2 (Chapter 5) explored this further using an experimental paradigm among 80 residents of a homeless service. Participants who were required to selfcategorize as homeless at the beginning of the questionnaire had significantly lower future life aspirations and perceived competency than participants who did not. Further, future life aspirations and perceived competency both mediated the relationship between self-categorization and wellbeing.Studies 3 and 4 (Chapters 6 and 7) focus on social identity processes for people transitioning through homelessness. Study 3 assessed how multiple group memberships and service identification related to well-being and positive housing outcomes among 76 participants while they were residing in a homeless accommodation service and again 2 -4 weeks after leaving the service (or three months later if participants had not left the service). The results found that multiple group memberships and service identification independently predicted well-being at Time 2, via social support. Both social identity processes also indirectly predicted housing outcomes via social support. Study 4 built on this research by exploring the antecedents and outcomes that are related to service identification among 296 residents across 19 services. Characteristics of the service delivery model and perceptions of discrimination predicted participants' identification with staff. Further, identification with staff predicted service engagement 6 months later and identification with residents predicted joining new groups 6 months later.The final study (Chapter 8) examined how one of these social processes, namely the relationship between social support and well-being, related to an "individual" trait -emotion iii regulation. Results from a one-year longitudinal study, conducted over three time-points, supported a bi...

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Pathways into Multiple Exclusion Homelessness in Seven UK Cities

Cited by 203 publications

References 39 publications

Testing a Typology of Homelessness Across Welfare Regimes: Shelter Use in Denmark and the USA

Testing a Typology of Homelessness Across Welfare Regimes: Shelter Use in Denmark and the USA

The Prevalence of Rough Sleeping and Sofa Surfing Amongst Young People in the UK

Transitions through homelessness: the impact of psychosocial factors on well-being and outcomes in a homeless sample

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