Women, Housing and Transitions Out of Homelessness

This is the second of two main reports for the project “Women, housing and transitions out of homelessness”. The earlier Stage 2 Report (Jerome et al, 2002) was based on an extensive, systematic review of the national and international literature on homelessness and specifically women’s homelessness. It identified the policy settings in Canada, the United States, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, as well as that in Australia. The report identified a number of examples of services provided in each country and explored the structure and resources of each, aiming to identify how each contributed to pathways out of homelessness. The Stage 2 Report also developed a typology of services for homeless women as a way of summarising the detail provided by the case studies. A critical component of the Stage 2 Report was the development of a model linking the structural, individual, community and household variables implicated in women’s homelessness on the one hand, with the human services and housing options available to address women’s homelessness on the other hand. The model provides the basic structure for this current report.