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Beyond Housing First: rethinking neoliberal policies impacting homelessness.
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Faculty of Sociology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Szamarzewskiego 89C, 60-568, Poznan, Poland.
This article critically examines the Housing First model within the broader context of neoliberal policies impacting homelessness, particularly at the intersection of mental illness, poverty, and addiction. While Housing First is celebrated for its effectiveness in providing immediate housing to chronically homeless individuals, this model's alignment with neoliberal principles prioritizes cost effectiveness and visible outcomes over comprehensive care. As a harm reduction approach, Housing First often overlooks the underlying mental health and addiction issues that maintain homelessness, resulting in a cycle of dependency rather than long-term recovery.
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December 2024
Department of Psychiatric Social Work, National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bengaluru, 560029, India.
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- The bidirectional link between homelessness and mental illness in India creates challenges for homeless women with severe mental illness, leading to reliance on institutional care while losing access to essential resources.
- The study aims to develop and validate a supported housing program specifically for these women in Bengaluru, utilizing feedback from the affected individuals and mental health professionals.
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Understanding street-exposure and abuse among street-involved children and youth in Kenya: structural intervention insights from routinely collected program data.
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Sodzo Kenya, Maua, Kenya.
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"What is our actual impact?": A mixed-method assessment of a Belgian shelter for homeless men.
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Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) CIRTES, IRES, & CERMi, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Electronic address:
This paper presents an outcomes assessment carried out in an 84-bed long-term shelter for homeless men in Brussels. In the context of increasing Housing First studies, it investigates an instance of the traditional "treatment first" model and provides a new Belgian case study. Adopting a multidimensional approach, it aims to better understand what impact an average stay in a long-term shelter has on its residents.
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Centre for Global Health Research, Brighton & Sussex Medical School, Brighton, United Kingdom.
Scabies is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) with high prevalence rate in resource-limited settings. Though street children are susceptible because of lack of sanitation and contact with vectors, few attempts have been made to identify the lived experience of street children with scabies in the global south. This study explored perceived susceptibility to scabies and related lived experiences of street children in Addis Ababa.
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