Using Evidence to End Homelessness (Paperback)

Julia Unwin

ISBN 10: 1447352866 / ISBN 13: 9781447352860

Published by Bristol University Press, Bristol, 2020

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Paperback. Available open access under CC-BY-NC license. Homelessness is unequivocally devastating. In the UK, people affected by homelessness are ten times more likely to die than their peers in the general population, yet we still miss important opportunities to adequately address the issue. The Centre for Homelessness Impact brings together this urgent book gathering the insights and experiences of leaders in government, academia and the third sector to present new evidence-based strategies to end homelessness. Demonstrating why and how a new movement is needed that embraces data and evidence as integral to ending homelessness effectively, this book provides crucial methods to underpin future policy, practice and funding decisions. Available open access under CC-BY-NC license. This book brings together the insights and experiences of a diverse group of government leaders, academics and third sector practitioners to set out new evidence-based strategies and solutions to end homelessness for good. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Using Evidence to End Homelessness (Paperback)
• Publisher: Bristol University Press, Bristol
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1447352866
• ISBN 13: 9781447352860
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Available open access under CC-BY-NC license. This book brings together the insights and experiences of a diverse group of government leaders, academics and third sector practitioners to set out new evidence-based strategies and solutions to end homelessness for good.

About the Authors

Jonathan Breckon is a researcher and advocate for evidence, and a visiting senior research fellow at King’s College London. He was previously the Director of the Alliance for Useful Evidence at Nesta, and a trustee of What Works for Children’s Social Care.

Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Peter’s College. He is a patron of RoadPeace, Comprehensive Future and Heeley City Farm. He has published over 50 books, including the best-selling Peak Inequality: Britain’s Ticking Timebomb (2018) and Injustice: Why Social Inequality Still Persists (2014)..