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Book SynopsisAvailable 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.
Trade Review“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.
Table of ContentsForeword ~ David Halpern 1 The Impact Manifesto: doing the right things to end homelessness for good ~ Lígia Teixeira 2 A new approach to ending homelessness ~ Jon Sparkes and Matt Downie 3 Reform in the private rented sector ~ Olly Grender 4 Houses, not homelessness ~ Danny Dorling 5 Loosening poverty’s grip ~ Campbell Robb 6 A cross-party approach to homelessness ~ Neil Coyle 7 Contrasting traditions in research between the UK and US ~ Dennis Culhane, Suzanne Fitzpatrick and Dan Treglia 8 Why evidence matters ~ Jonathan Breckon and Emma Taylor-Collins 9 A public health approach to homelessness ~ Louise Marshall and Jo Bibby 10 Data and evidence: what is possible in public policy? ~ Stephen Aldridge 11 Using evidence in social policy: from NICE to What Works ~ Howard White and David Gough 12 Charities and donors in evidence systems ~ Caroline Fiennes 13 Why transparency matters to knowledge mobilisation ~ Tracey Brown 14 Afterword ~ Julia Unwin Index
