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Counting All Homelessness in Europe: The Case for Ending Separate Enumeration of ‘Hidden Homelessness’ KU Leuven
This paper explores the challenges around the measurement of allhomelessness in Europe. The paper begins by reviewing challenges in relation to definition and measurement and moves on to consider the political and ethical dimensions of measuring homelessness that occurs within housing.The paper concludes by proposing new definitions, including dropping theterm ‘hidden homelessness’, and advocates properly resourced and directed social research. ...
Addressing Homelessness through Disaster Discourses: The Role of Social Capital and Innovation in Building Urban Resilience and Addressing Homelessness KU Leuven
Natural disasters and homelessness are two urban pathogens witnessed in most large cities. While at first glance they may be seen as two separate policy domains, they can also be interlinked. A conceptual analysis of this inter-linkage is necessary before we start imagining and giving shape to holistic approaches to address them. This think piece focuses on the notion of resilience-building through social networking and innovation, especially ...
Non-places of homelessness : mobility and affect in 'Somewhere Nowhere: Lives Without Homes' and 'Borb' Ghent University
This essay explores the links between home(lessness), place, and affect depicted in two graphic narratives, Somewhere Nowhere: Lives Without Homes (2012), edited by a team of scholars based in the UK, and Borb by the U.S. comic artist Jason Little (2015). Homelessness is understood in both publications as a set of conditions that divests persons of their ability to relate to the places they inhabit. Most places accessible to the urban homeless ...
Identifying hopelessness in population research: a validation study of two brief measures of hopelessness Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Objective: Hopelessness is an important construct in psychosocial epidemiology, but there is great pressure on the length of questionnaire measures in large-scale population and clinical studies. We examined the validity and test-retest reliability of two brief measures of hopelessness, an existing negatively worded two-item measure of hopelessness (Brief-H-Neg) and a positively worded version of the same instrument (Brief-H-Pos).
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Voluntariness as legitimation for social work interventions: a case study in Flemish homelessness care Ghent University
Based on research into homelessness care, in this article we discuss the dominant interpretation of voluntariness as an individual characteristic. It will be demonstrated that this conceptualization runs the risk of becoming a tool to select those clients for whom short-term reachable goals can be set, and that clients are obliged to accept the conditions which are set by social work initiatives. We argue for an understanding of voluntariness as ...
Homelessness and outreach work in a context of hybridization? Ghent University
U+FFFC Since its decriminalization in 1993, homelessness has mainly been conceptualized as a poverty problem (Maeseele, 2012). The subsequent approach of homelessness has been characterized by U+2018the continuum of care modelU+2019 or U+2018the staircase modelU+2019 (FEANTSA, 2011). This approach fitted seamless with a highly developed field of welfare organizations, as a key feature of the Belgian welfare state. Underpinned by the agenda of ...