Making the homeless count? enumerating rough sleepers and the distortion of homelessness

In: Policy & politics: advancing knowledge in public and social policy, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 259-279

Abstract

Argues that homeless statistics are important to identify problems and formulate public policies, and that to improve the reliability of counts there is a need to draw on the experience of housing officers, local agency workers, and others dealing daily with localized homeless; Great Britain. Summaries in French and Spanish.