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View article: Individual, interpersonal, and neighborhood measures associated with opioid use stigma: Evidence from a nationally representative survey
Individual, interpersonal, and neighborhood measures associated with opioid use stigma: Evidence from a nationally representative survey Open
Despite growing awareness of opioid use disorder (OUD), fatal overdoses and downstream health conditions (e.g., hepatitis C and HIV) continue to rise in some populations. Various interrelated structural forces, together with social and eco…
View article: Improving multiple exclusion homelessness (MEH) services: frontline worker responses to insecure attachment styles
Improving multiple exclusion homelessness (MEH) services: frontline worker responses to insecure attachment styles Open
Purpose This study aims to examine the emotional and cognitive responses of frontline homelessness service support staff to the highly insecure attachment styles (AS) exhibited by people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness (MEH), …
View article: Valuing Control over One’s Immediate Living Environment: How Homelessness Responses Corrode Capabilities
Valuing Control over One’s Immediate Living Environment: How Homelessness Responses Corrode Capabilities Open
Informed by the capabilities approach, this paper considers the importance of control over one's environment for people experiencing homelessness. Drawing on a study of temporary accommodation in Scotland, we make four arguments. First, co…
View article: the-homelessness-monitor-wales-2021
the-homelessness-monitor-wales-2021 Open
The Homelessness Monitor series is a longitudinal study providing an independent analysis of the homelessness impacts of recent economic and policy developments in Wales and elsewhere in the UK. This fourth Wales-focused report provides an…
View article: Localism and homelessness: a decade of disaster in England
Localism and homelessness: a decade of disaster in England Open
Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Hal Pawson, and Beth Watts use the example of rising homelessness in England to illustrate the argument that localist policymaking has an intrinsic tendency to disadvantage socially marginalised groups.
View article: The City Under COVID‐19: Podcasting As Digital Methodology
The City Under COVID‐19: Podcasting As Digital Methodology Open
This critical commentary reflects on a rapidly mobilised international podcast project, in which 25 urban scholars from around the world provided audio recordings about their cities during COVID‐19. New digital tools are increasing the spe…
View article: The limits of localism: a decade of disaster on homelessness in England
The limits of localism: a decade of disaster on homelessness in England Open
The rhetoric and practice of localism has attracted significant support within both political and academic circles in the UK in recent years. However, it is the contention of this article that there are, or should be, limits to localism as…
View article: Rebalancing the rhetoric: A normative analysis of enforcement in street homelessness policy
Rebalancing the rhetoric: A normative analysis of enforcement in street homelessness policy Open
Street homelessness policies often provoke great intensity of feeling, especially when they include elements of force. This paper considers the moral case stakeholders present for and against enforcement in street homelessness policies via…
View article: Homelessness Monitor Northern Ireland 2020
Homelessness Monitor Northern Ireland 2020 Open
This study provides an independent analysis of the homelessness impacts of recent economic and policy developments in Northern Ireland. It considers both the consequences of the post-2007 economic and housing market recession, and the subs…
View article: Homelessness and social control: a typology
Homelessness and social control: a typology Open
The use of 'social control' interventions in housing and welfare policy often courts intense controversy, and never more so than when attempts are made to bring about change in the conduct of street homeless people. To date, academic scrut…
View article: Controlling Homeless People? Power, Interventionism and Legitimacy
Controlling Homeless People? Power, Interventionism and Legitimacy Open
There is intense debate over the legitimacy of interventions which seek behavioural change on the part of street homeless people. ‘Hard’ measures, such as arresting people for begging, are particularly controversial, but ‘softer’ intervent…
View article: Competing visions: security of tenure and the welfarisation of English social housing
Competing visions: security of tenure and the welfarisation of English social housing Open
Recent legislation ending security of tenure for new council tenants in England may be considered emblematic of a US-style vision of social housing as a temporary welfare service, reserved only for the very poorest. But there is resistance…
View article: The Homelessness Monitor: England 2017
The Homelessness Monitor: England 2017 Open
The homelessness monitor series is a longitudinal study providing an independent analysis of the homelessness impacts of recent economic and policy developments in England and elsewhere in the UK.1 This sixth annual report updates our acco…
View article: Musculoskeletal stress markers and activity patterns in the prehistoric Texas Coast
Musculoskeletal stress markers and activity patterns in the prehistoric Texas Coast Open
Understanding the activities of people in the past is the primary goal for most archaeologists and physical anthropologists examining a skeletal population. While a variety of methods can be used, the identification and examination of musc…