Blog | Centre for Homelessness Impact

May 30 – the journey so far and our flagship tools event

On May 30 we brought an intimate group of change makers and leaders together in Edinburgh to celebrate the fact that we are now fully up, running and have launched the first iteration of our flagship tools. Here are reflections and a videos from the day.

May 17, 2018

Dave Russell

Introducing the Homelessness Intervention Tool

Our Intervention Tool has been created to address the challenge of finding quick and reliable insights from the considerable body of evidence on what works in homelessness.

May 10, 2018

Dr Lígia Teixeira

SHARE framework – announcing the first iteration.

We are offering the SHARE framework to those in and around the sector to help facilitate smarter conversations about ending homelessness.

May 3, 2018

Dr Lígia Teixeira

Announcing our first evidence and gap maps on homelessness

By mapping gaps and global evidence, we are aiming to highlight ‘what works’ and create efficiencies for decision makers

April 18, 2018

Dr Howard White

How to make what works work: initial lessons from process evaluations

Previously successful interventions may fail if poorly implemented. It is common for programmes which attain successful pilots to fail to achieve the same impact once taken to scale. So, as well as mapping studies which tell us what works, we are mapping data from on what implementations issues arise.

April 9, 2018

Dave Russell

Lessons from Open Demo Day

Explore learnings from sharing prototypes of our Evidence Tool at Open Demo Day in Edinburgh

April 5, 2018

Centre for Homelessness Impact

Our story so far: pursuing evidence based impact

Learn more about how we are introducing people to our mission, approach and early projects. And imagine how much energy we might unleash if we applied the same rigour and meticulous testing to homelessness as they do in fields like aviation.

February 28, 2018

Dr Lígia Teixeira

Advisory Panel workshop 2018

On the 12th of February we hosted the first meeting of our new Advisory Panel to share our plans for mobilising evidence in support of more effectively tackling homelessness. Here are reflections and videos from the day.

February 13, 2018

Dr Howard White

Evidence and gap maps: a launchpad for strategic evidence creation and use.

We are working with the Campbell Collaboration to produce a number of systematic maps of existing evidence. The first stage of this work has mapped 131 studies. Dr Howard White shares early findings.

February 5, 2018

Dr Lígia Teixeira

How can foundations help accelerate progress towards a future without homelessness?

Working with foundations to help them take stock and to map out the future.

December 18, 2017

Dr Lígia Teixeira

We're off the ground!

Funding secured by Crisis and GHN to launch our new centre in spring 2018. A note from director Ligia Teixeira on what that means and what we've got planned for the new year

December 18, 2017

What counts as good evidence?

We need an improved infrastructure to assess what works in the homelessness field. Ruth Puttick explains why adopting standards of evidence is a vital first step before we can ensure that policy-makers, commissioners and practitioners have evidence that supports effective work.

December 15, 2017

Press release

Can we end homelessness faster? New centre launches in 2018 to help accelerate the use of evidence in the sector.

Crisis and Glasgow Homelessness Network (GHN) are pleased to announce the creation of the Centre for Homelessness Impact, with the support from philanthropist

December 11, 2017

Dr Lígia Teixeira