Using Evidence to End Homelessness / edited by Lígia Teixeira, James Cartwright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cartwright, James, editor.

Teixeira, Lígia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homelessness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 pages)

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2020.

Summary:

Available open access under CC-BY-NC license. This book brings together the insights and experiences of a diverse group of of government leaders, academics and third sector practitioners to set out new evidence-based strategies and solutions to end homelessness for good.

Contents:

Front cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of figures

Notes on contributors

Foreword

1. The Impact Manifesto: doing the right things to end homelessness for good

2. A new approach to ending homelessness

3. Reform in the private rented sector

4. Houses, not homelessness

5. Loosening poverty's grip

6. A cross-party approach to homelessness

7. Contrasting traditions in homelessness research between the UK and US

8. Why evidence matters

9. A public health approach to homelessness 10. Data and evidence: what is possible in public policy?

11. Using evidence in social policy: from NICE to What Works

12. Charities and donors in evidence systems

13. Why transparency matters to knowledge mobilisation

14. Afterword

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781447352877

1447352874