Publications
Browse our publications to discover what works
We collaborate with academics, universities, and research groups to uncover what really helps people out of homelessness. Explore our growing body of work that includes randomised control trials, systematic reviews, policy papers, and books which help to fill the gaps in our understanding of homelessness.
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February 2025
What is a Hostel in 21st Century Britain?
Based on the largest ever survey of UK hostels, this report provides a comprehensive overview of the current provision of hostels.
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March 2022
Emergency measures during Covid-19: what worked in global cities
This paper on emergency pandemic measures looks at what nine global cities did to house and support people experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
March 2022
Evidence and society in the UK: public perceptions and homelessness
This report shares the findings from the second survey by Ipsos MORI for the Centre for Homelessness Impact 12 months after the first – conducted November/December 2020 – and designed to track changes in public perceptions of homelessness.
March 2022
European Journal of Homelessness: Homelessness and Public Health: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Homelessness has long been recognised as a health issue – how could it not be when people experiencing long-term forms of homelessness have mortality rates many times higher than those of the general population. This article provides examples of successes as well as missteps in public health responses to homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom and United States and describe lessons for the future.
March 2022
NICE guideline: Integrated health and social care for people experiencing homelessness
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Centre for Homelessness Impact (CHI) have jointly published a guideline on ways to improve access to and engagement with health and social care services for people experiencing homelessness.
March 2022
European Journal of Homelessness: Accelerating Learning: the First Randomised Controlled Trials
Given the substantial gaps in our knowledge and the very limited number of Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) in homelessness interventions in Europe, in this paper we explain the potential value of RCTS before reflecting on the experience of commissioning and running some of the first RCTs in homelessness in the UK.
March 2022
European Journal of Homelessness: Social Investment in Ending Homelessness
Social investment from both the public and philanthropic sectors have been activated to test innovative new approaches to ending homelessness. This paper highlights three innovative investment approaches to accelerate solutions to end homelessness. Each approach highlights the mechanisms by which the approach leverages public, philanthropic, and private capital to address a particular challenge that may be slowing progress toward the goal of ending homelessness.
March 2022
European Journal of Homelessness: Finnish but not yet Finished - Successes and Challenges of Housing First in Finland
The success of the Finnish model has been attributed to an integrated strategy. But is it possible to distil those elements of the Finnish model that have worked well and those failures or missteps that should be avoided in the future? This article is a preliminary exercise for that kind of analysis.
March 2022
European Journal of Homelessness: A Tale of Two Countries: A Comparison of Multi-Site Randomised Controlled Trials
As part of the Special Edition of the European Journal of Homelessness, this paper compares the results from the large multi-site trials that examined the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Pathways Housing First (HF) in Canada and France. Written by Tim Aubry, Maryann Roebuck, Sandrine Loubiere Aurelie Tinland, Geoff Nelson and Eric Latimer.
