Date: 20th September 2019
Theme: Homelessness and Housing Exclusion
Location: Helsingborg Campus of the University of Lund, Helsingborg, Sweden
Registrations closed
FEANTSA’s European Observatory on Homelessness, Lund University and the City of Helsingborg held the 14th Annual European Research Conference on Homelessness in Helsingborg, Sweden.
Europe’s leading research conference on homelessness explored recent evidence on the broad theme of ‘homelessness and housing exclusion’ from across Europe and elsewhere. The conference invited presentations on policies and practices in relation to homelessness and housing exclusion across Europe. Early career researchers are also invited to present their research activities.
Seminar Abstracts & Speaker Bios
Presentations available below by clicking on each paper.
Plenary
Chair: Volker Busch-Geertsema, DE
Cameron Parsell, AU: The Homeless Person in Contemporary Society
Marcus Knutagård, SE: On Homelessness - Credit and Blame
Seminar Session 1
Chair: Nóra Teller, HU
Melanie Redman and Steve Gaetz, CA: Designing the Adaptation and Implementation of the Welsh Model of Duty to Assist in Canada, and the Role of Evidence
Peter Mackie, UK: A Duty to Assist: Exploring the Global Mobilities of Homelessness Prevention Policy
Chair: Volker Busch-Geertsema, DE
Silvia Maria Schor et al, ES/BRA: Homelessness and Housing Exclusion. Housing provision for homeless people in São Paulo city and the Communal Housing First Model
Isabel Baptista, Marcus Knutagard and Nicholas Pleace, PT/SE/UK: Housing First in Europe: An Overview of Implementation, Strategy and Fidelity
Chair: Freek Spinnewijn, BE
Leo Bothén, Håkan Källmén, Ulla Beijer, Mats Blid, SE: The Effect of Housing First Program in Stockholm Regarding Recovery
Joan Uribe and colleagues, ES: Difficulties and Limits in the Implementation of a Housing First Program in a Context Whith a Lack of Public (social) Housing and its Effects
Seminar 4: Housing Rights and Right to the City
Chair: Eoin O’Sullivan, IE
Nicolás Palacios, SE: Public Space and the Banning of homelessness in Copenhagen: Struggle and revindications of alternative spatial practices
Tamara Walsh, AU: Homelessness, Evictions and Human Rights Law
Seminar 5: Methodology and Research Ethics
Chair: Joe Doherty, UK
Clíodhna Bairéad, IE: Rough Sleeping in the Dublin Region – Building on Previous Evidence to Improve the Methodology for Enumerating Rough Sleeping and Better Support Both the Individual and Policy Development
Marcus Knutagård, Arne Kristiansen, Carina Nilsson & Ann-Kristin Sörensen, SE: Ethical and Methodological Challenges in Action Research on Homelessness Services
Seminar 6: Measuring Homelessness (1)
Chair: Lars Benjaminsen, DK
Patrick Hunter, Ian Cooper, CA: Understanding Chronic Homelessness in Canada
Marion Giovanangeli and colleagues, FR: The New French Street Counts: Figures, Lessons, and Perspectives
Seminar Session 2
Seminar 7: Measuring Homelessness (2)
Chair: Volker Busch-Geertsema, DE
Olga Nešporová, Petr Holpuch, CZ: The First General Count of Homeless People in the Czech Republic in 2019
Susanne Gerull, DE: The Life Situation of Homeless Persons - 1st Systematic Examination in Germany
Seminar 8: Migration and Homelessness (1)
Chair: Eoin O’Sullivan, IE
Jana Turk and Duin Ghazi, FI: Tackling Structural Factors of Migrant Housing Exclusion in Finland: Lessons Learnt from Katto-project
Annika Lindberg, Lisa Marie Borrelli, Martin Joormann, SE: Sleeping Rough in Sweden: An intersectional Analysis of Homelessness among Groups with Different Citizenship and Residency Statuses in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö
Seminar 9: Homeless Policies (1)
Chair: Isabel Baptista, PT
Kathy Reilly, IE: People, Policy and Place: Examining Homelessness beyond the Capital in Ireland
Nienke Boesveldt, Chahida Bouhamou, NL: Client Perspectives on Dutch De-institutionalization
Pedro José Cabrera, Santiago Bachiller, ES: Challenges for Public Policies Tackling Homelessness in Latin America: a Comparative Analysis
Seminar 10: Homeless Policies (2)
Chair: Nicholas Pleace, UK
Ingrid Sahlin, SE: Moving Targets
Isobel Anderson, UK: Delivering the Right to Housing? Why Scotland Still Needs an ‘Ending Homelessness Action Plan’
Seminar 11: Theories of Home and Space
Chair: Nóra Teller, HU
Laura Helene Hojring, DK: From Homelessness to Homeliness
Roberta Bova, IT: Homelessness: the Importance of Network and the Expectations in the Future
Johannes Lenhard, FR: The Economy of Hot Air Vents – Homeless People’s Struggle for Surface-space at Paris’ Gare du Nord
Seminar 12: Women and homelessness (1)
Chair: Mike Allen, IE
Tove Samselius, SE: Family homelessness and conditional welfare in Sweden: The experience of female lone parents in greater Stockholm
Paula Mayock and Sarah Sheridan, IE: Women Negotiating Power and Control as the ‘Journey’ through Homelessness
Seminar Session 3
Seminar 13: Women and Homelessness (2)
Chair: Isabel Baptista, PT
Renée de Vet and Judith Wolf, NL: Does the Level of Social Quality Differ between Homeless Women and Men before and after Shelter Exit?
Magdalena Mostowska, Katarzyna Debska, PL: Regulating Women’s Behaviour in Crisis Accommodation in Poland
Seminar 14: Youth Homelessness
Chair: Nóra Teller, HU
Naomi Nichols, Jayne Malenfant, CA: A Social Research & Development Approach to Preventing Youth Homelessness and Fighting Intersecting Forms of Institutional Exclusion
Naomi Thulien, Stephen Hwang, and Andrea Wang, CA: Beyond a Home: Facilitating Socioeconomic Inclusion for Young People Transitioning Out of Homelessness
Chair: Lars Benjaminsen, DK
Saija Turunen, Maria Ohisalo, FI: Welfare of the Residents in Scattered Site Housing
Malte Moll Wingender, DK: Consequences of Longer Stays in Shelters – a Full Population Study
Vanesa Cenjor del Rey, ES: Homelessness and Good Care: a Possible Relation
Seminar 16: Homelessness in Nordic Countries
Chair: Eoin O’Sullivan, IE
Ilja Sabaj-Kjær and Jens Hauch, DK: Nordic Homeless Monitor
Sten Ake Stenberg, SE: Risk Factors for Housing Evictions: Evidence from Panel Data
Chair: Albert Sales, ES (TBC)
Patrick Fowler and Daniel Farrell, USA: Designing Innovative Homelessness Prevention Systems for Youth
Francesca Albanese, UK: Prevention or Cure? A Year on from the Homelessness Reduction Act in England
Seminar 18: Migration and Homelessness (2)
Chair: Mike Allen, IE
Emilie Segol, FR: Profile and Future of Migrants in Paris Emergency Camps
Karolina Mróz, PL: Romanian Romani Residents of Wroclaw Programme
Poster presentations
Amanda Shields, UK: “Nothing about us, without us!”: Promoting Engagement and Inclusion with People who are Homeless in aCurrent Research Study in Northern Ireland
Sarah Bradbeer, UK: Criminalisation of Homelessness
Catalina Ramírez Vega, ES: Feeling like home in the public space: homeless people’s experiences in the streets of San José, Costa Rica (co-author: Dr. Tomeu Vidal Miranda)
Christina Carmichael, UK: The Paradoxes of ‘Independence’: Exploring Service User and Practitioner Perspectives on Pathways out of Homelessness
Coline van Everdingen, NL: The Profile and Mental Health of the Dutch Homeless Service Users: the Results of Cross-sectional Research
Hannah Browne Gott, UK: Pathways through Health and Homelessness Services: Intersectional Analysis Using Administrative Data
Hannah Obert, DE: Images of Relationship among Homeless Women and their Consequences
Håvard Aaslund, NO: Collective Participation to Encounter Homelessness – Resources and Identity
Kelly-Marie Roberts, MT: Findings of Arts-Based Participatory Research with Homeless People in Malta
Laura Rapo, FI: Housing first paradigm in frontline social work. Analysis of social work documentation for homeless young adults
Lea Lengyel, HU: Homeless mothers. Motherhood for homeless women and their relationship with their children
Nadia Ayed, UK: Homelessness and Social Capital
Patricia Puente Guerrero, ES: Criminal victimisation experiences among homeless people as a function of the place where they spend the night. Analysis from Hindelang, Gottfredson and Garofalo’s Lifestyle/Exposure Model of Personal Victimisation
Tove Samselius, SE: Family homelessness and conditional welfare in Sweden: The experience of female lone parents in greater Stockholm
Wendy Ann Webb, UK: Life’s hard and then you die: PhD exploring end of life priorities for people experiencing homelessness within the United Kingdom
