Research
Crisis delivers research in-house, as well as commissioning external researchers to better understand the causes and nature of homelessness and to find and make the case for innovative solutions.
- Find out about our current research projects
- See our most recent research publications
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Recommended reading
The Homelessness Monitor
Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Hal Pawson, Glen Bramley and Steve Wilcox
Squatting: a homelessness issue. An evidence review
Kesia Reeve, CRESR
The Hidden Truth about Homelessness
Kesia Reeve with Elaine Batty
A Review of Single Homelessness in the UK 2000-2010
Anwen Jones and Nicholas Pleace
Current research projects
Homeless mortality in early 21st century England
Crisis has commissioned Dr Bethan Thomas, a Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of Sheffield, to examine mortality and life expectancy of homeless and vulnerably housed people in 21st Century England, using ONS individual mortality records. A briefing on the interim findings is already available and the full report will be published in Spring 2012.
Sustain: well-being & housing sustainability in the PRS
Shelter and Crisis are working in partnership to deliver a three-year project funded by the Big Lottery Fund. This will look at the long-term outcomes for vulnerable households which have recently entered the private rented sector - and develop a robust evidence base for future policy and practice in this area.
Recent research publications
- Homelessness: A silent killer (Dec, 2011)
- The homelessness monitor: Tracking the impacts of policy and economic change in England 2011-2013. Year 1: Establishing the baseline. (Oct, 2011)
- Squatting: a homelessness issue. An evidence review (Oct, 2011)
- Unfair Shares: A report on the impact of extending the Shared Accommodation Rate of Housing Benefit (Jul, 2011)
- In Work Staying Better Off evaluation (Jul, 2011)
- Collective intelligence: an evaluation of the WILLOW project (May, 2011)
