Using Evidence to End Homelessness

Description

A new framework for tackling homelessness, based on collective, cross-disciplinary and cross-sector action, under which all future policy and intervention is tried, tested, monitored and then adopted according to real-world results. Homelessness is unequivocally devastating. In the UK, the average lifespan of a homeless person is just 47, 30 years younger than the national average, yet policy makers are still failing to adequately address the crisis. The Centre for Homelessness Impact brings together this urgent book which gathers the insights and experiences of a diverse group of government leaders, academics, radical thinkers and activists to set out new evidence-based strategies and solutions to the homelessness crisis. Demonstrating why and how working collaboratively helps people working to end homelessness achieve better results, this much-needed book provides crucial evidence to underpin future policy, practice and funding decisions.

Ligia Teixeira is Chief Executive of the Centre for Homelessness Impact. She was previously Head of Research and Evaluation at Crisis, where for nine years she led the organisation's evidence programme-growing its scale and impact into one of the largest and most influential in the UK and internationally. James Cartwright is Editorial and Engagement Associate at the Centre for Homelessness Impact.

"This volume is a fascinating synthesis of the concerns and challenges facing those working to end homelessness, alongside the emerging transferable lessons and insights arising from the growing role of evidence evaluation and what works across many public policy domains." Ken Gibb, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence "Where resources are at a premium, impacts life altering and options disputed building knowledge about what works is essential. This book offers a serious way to achieve large scale sustainable progress for people experiencing homeless in the UK and beyond." Nancy Hey, What Works Wellbeing.