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Phenomenon of Homelessness
… and "logos" meaning study. The thesis studies 'homelessness', a social phenomenon characterized by a physical condition wherein individuals or families lack safe, stable, and adequate housing. Homelessness can affect people of all ages, backgrounds, and circumstances and leads to challenges such …
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Pathways to Homelessness: Exploring the Mental Health Experiences of Refugees Experiencing Homelessness in Canada
BACKGROUND: Homelessness among refugees continues to be a growing issue in Canada. Recent reports indicate the rapidly growing population of refugees, most especially refugee claimants, accessing emergency shelters in Canada. Research to date has been limited on how the diversity of factors, such …
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Scope of Homelessness in Kentucky
… from several sources to examine the scope of homelessness in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The primary findings of the project conclude that there is a lack of data regarding counting homeless individuals, and that the available data should be examined to determine changes in the homeless …
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Homelessness in Spokane: an inquiry into the experience of homelessness in a mid-sized city
<p>This study focuses on the condition of homelessness in Spokane, Washington, as compared to the same condition in larger and more frequently studied cities, using San Francisco and Seattle as a collective comparison tool for examples of large cities. By examining the neoliberalization of large …
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Music and Homelessness in Austin, Texas
Homelessness is a critical problem in America today. In Austin, some homeless people attempt to earn income by busking, playing music for monetary donations. In this thesis I will present findings based on field research among homeless buskers in Austin taking care to include many of my own …
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Mapping Ruling Relations Through Homelessness Organizing
… and organizational documents. Focusing on OCAPs homelessness campaigns, I examine the social relations of struggle in three campaigns in Toronto: a campaign to stop the criminalization of homeless people in a public park by private security, a campaign to increase access to a social assistance …
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The Impact of Homelessness on Mothers
… examines the complex and far-reaching impact of homelessness on expecting mothers, with detailed attention to the barriers that they encounter in accessing timely and comprehensive prenatal and neonatal care. Pregnant women experiencing homelessness face a multitude of challenges including …
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Bidding AD(ie)U to homelessness?
… to house individuals transitioning out of homelessness and/or Section 8 voucher-holders. Although in the early stages, these pilot programs seem to defy NIMBY expectations and offer a window into possible strategies for creating low-income housing. Simultaneously, the pilots raise questions …
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Perceptions of Nature Among People Experiencing Homelessness
… study conducted with people experiencing homelessness and food insecurity to determine their perceptions of nature, both positive and negative. This study utilized the theoretical frameworks of biophilia, ecological systems theory, social-ecological model, and risk and protection factors …
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Narrative Case Studies Exploring Homelessness and Education
… the experiences of families encountering homelessness and how children experience formal and informal education. Families experiencing homelessness were defined as groups of persons living without regular, fixed, and adequate housing. Narrative case studies on four families living in a …
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TRANSITIONAL PRODUCTIVE LANDSCAPE : REDRESSING HOMELESSNESS IN SINGAPORE
Homelessness in Singapore Despite the official claims that there are no homeless, destitute or starving people (in Singapore), the condition of homelessness in singapore is by no means eradicated. Through the survey of housing typology in Singapore in relationship to their real estate values, …
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Perceptions of Humanity: College Students on Homelessness
… effects on the students' perceptions of homelessness. Beliefs in the causes of homelessness were effected by political affiliation. Ethnicity affected scores regarding students' willingness to affiliate with homeless individuals. Social Dominance Orientation scores also correlated …
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Engaging homelessness: Facilitating change through architectural intervention
This dissertation engages with the issue of homelessness in the City of Cape Town. It makes use of existing literature and research on homelessness to frame the severity of the issue. Furthermore, it surfaces the lived experience of homelessness through first-hand accounts of living on the street, …
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Homelessness as a Risk Factor in Persons with Serious Mental Illness A Study of How Previous Homelessness Affects Recovery
<p>Although homelessness is conventionally studied as an outcome, this paper argues that the process of becoming and remaining homeless is inherently traumatic, and therefore has the potential to affect the manifestation of mental illness. The experience of becoming and remaining homeless is …
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Ethnically Mixed Individuals: Cultural Homelessness or Multicultural Integration?
… concept and theoretical framework of Cultural Homelessness; relates CH to multicultural integration; and develops two study-specific measures (included) to examine the construct validity of CH. The samples (N = 448, 67% women) racial, ethnic, and cultural mixture was coded back three …
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AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF REPEATED HOMELESSNESS IN OXFORD
… routines of rough sleepers in Oxford, whose homelessness persisted and was repeated, and how these routines intersected with their social worlds. Participant observation undertaken over three years provides new insights into the practices rough sleepers were engaged in whilst living on the …
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