Councils struggling to cope with homeless people. This is the finding from the latest annual review of the extent and nature of homelessness in England published this week by Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as part of its Homelessness monitor series.
The homelessness monitor is a five year study (2011-2015), funded by Crisis and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, that provides an independent analysis of the impact of recent economic and policy developments in the UK on homelessness. There are particular concerns about young homeless people
Also launched this week from Crisis as part of a new campaign Crisis- Lead London Home Manifesto for single homeless people 2016
On this topic see the official UK government statistics on homelessness They include rough sleeping, families in bed and breakfast accommodation
St Mungos publishes research on the lives of homeless people as well as policy issues.
Homelessness in Europe FEANTSA is the European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless is an umbrella of not-for-profit organisations which participate in or contribute to the fight against homelessness in Europe. It maintains the European Observatory on homelessness which offers free access to the European Journal of Homelessness
UN Demographic yearbook has statistics on household characteristics by country: the most recent cover 2014. This includes the homeless.
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