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Abstract
The pandemic has clearly established homelessness as a public health issue, although sometimes the rhetoric has focused more on homeless people as a source of contagion than a group which is particularly vulnerable to it. It has demonstrated to the public that, if a policy decision can be made to take everyone off the streets, or at least the vast majority of those sleeping rough at a particular point in time, then it was a policy decision in the past and likely will be again in the future not to do so.
An unplanned ‘switching off’ of pandemic measures that have reduced flows into homelessness could have drastic consequences for commissioning and homelessness systems that have been weakened by sustained experience of rapidly falling and increasingly unpredictable funding.
An unplanned ‘switching off’ of pandemic measures that have reduced flows into homelessness could have drastic consequences for commissioning and homelessness systems that have been weakened by sustained experience of rapidly falling and increasingly unpredictable funding.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | Riverside |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Publication status | Published - 29 Apr 2021 |
Keywords
- Homelessness
- Commissioning public services
- Public administration
Activities
- 2 Invited talk
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FEANTSA 15th European Research Conference on Homelessness
Imogen Blood (Invited speaker) & Nicholas Pleace (Invited speaker)
24 Sep 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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A Traumatised System: A critical crossroads for the commissioning of homelessness services
Imogen Blood (Keynote/plenary speaker) & Nicholas Pleace (Keynote/plenary speaker)
29 Apr 2021Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk