Housing and homelessness
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What causes homelessness? How can homelessness be solved?
We’re taking a systems change approach to understand what’s causing the rising homelessness crisis. We’re making sense of existing data, highlight promising approaches, and connecting different areas of work to help tackle homelessness. Find out about this research.
We also helped the Evening Standard to evaluate the impact of their homelessness campaign. Get in touch if you’re looking to evaluate the work of your own campaigns.
Featured resources and commentary on housing and homelessness
Resources
Tackling the homelessness crisis: Why and how you should fund systemically
Homelessness is a problem which has grown massively in the last decade. It is a complex issue that goes far beyond rough sleeping. Here we set homelessness in it's correct context, as a problem caused by systemic factors such as poverty, and suggest ways philanthropists can help.
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Treating homelessness as a systemic problem
Rachel gives an overview of the findings of our recent report on the systems level causes-of and solutions-to the problem of homelessness.
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What can 360Giving data tell us about homelessness funding?
We delved into 360Giving data to see which private trusts and foundations fund homelessness interventions.
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Why the government must ban no-fault evictions now
The government must introduce its Renters Reform Bill and ban no fault evictions without delay.
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Levelling Up and social needs: An analysis of government’s progress
Where Levelling Up money is going and how does it compares with people's priorities?
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Has Covid-19 really ended homelessness?
Whilst temporarily addressing rough sleeping, there are issues that policymakers, charities and funders must face up to.
Talk to us
Got a question, comment, or want to work with us on housing and homelessness? Get in touch with Margery Infield NPC’s Homelessness Lead.
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