Resources For Practitioners
Free resources to help you in your work to end homelessness
Our practical resources, evidence-based solutions, and open source image library have been carefully designed to support you in your efforts to end homelessness.
Data and evidence tools
Our Evidence Tools for homelessness put evidence at people's fingertips, making the available evidence easier to use and highlighting where more and better evidence is needed. They show what the evidence says about homelessness interventions and help you make smarter decisions about how to best serve those experiencing homelessness in the future.
Use the tools
An image library to challenge the perception of homelessness
Access the UK’s first free image library showcasing realistic and evidence-led images of people experiencing homelessness. These images challenge negative representations of people experiencing homelessness and depicts the subject of homelessness in natural and non-stereotypical ways.
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A language checklist for reporting on homelessness
The way we speak about homelessness can either help shift perspectives toward empathy and support, or reinforce damaging stereotypes. This checklist is designed to encourage the use of more inclusive, respectful language and to avoid inadvertently perpetuating harmful assumptions about people experiencing homelessness.
This guidance was developed by Dr Apurv Chauhan and Professor Juliet Foster at King’s College London, funded by the Centre for Homelessness Impact (CHI).
Our latest publications
What really works to end homelessness? Explore our growing body of work that includes randomised control trials, systematic reviews, policy papers, and books which help to fill the gaps in our understanding of homelessness.
A video series exploring how to improve access to healthcare
In 2022, we worked with the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) to co-produce its first guideline on integrated health and social care for people experiencing homelessness. In addition to creating an implementation guide, we have also created a series of short films to raise awareness of the guideline and how it can support care professionals in their work and deliver better access and outcomes for patients
Evidence Notes
Our Evidence Notes provide concise summaries for practitioners and policy-makers setting out what we know about what works to prevent and relieve and prevent homelessness on the following topics
What Works Evidence Notes: Domestic Abuse and Homelessness
This paper provides an overview of the evidence on the intersection between domestic abuse and homelessness, particularly focusing on women survivors. It discusses evidence-based interventions and promising practices that prevent and address homelessness among domestic abuse survivors, and how further research efforts, evaluation, and policy can help improve outcomes for survivors in the UK.
Read moreWhat Works Evidence Notes: Prison Discharge and Homelessness
This paper explores the link between homelessness and discharge from prison, providing key insights into the efficacy of current government programmes and promising new initiatives.
Read moreWhat Works Evidence Notes: Mental Health and Homelessness
This paper explores the link between homelessness and mental health, and provides effective interventions such as integrated support models and trauma-focused interventions to tackle these pressing issues.
Read moreWhat Works Evidence Notes: Employment
This paper looks at the evidence around the relationship between homelessness and employment, with a focus on street homelessness and other forms of single homelessness.
Read moreWhat Works Evidence Notes: Immigration
This paper looks at the evidence around the relationship between homelessness and immigration status, with a focus on street homelessness and other forms of single homelessness, looking in particular at people with no recourse to public funds.
Read moreWhat Works Evidence Notes: Welfare
This paper describes some key trends about homelessness and the existing evidence about how this relates to changes in benefit entitlements. We discuss opportunities for data analyses to quantify these links as well as potential opportunities for reform. It should be read alongside the joint CHI-CIH paper on housing subsidies for people on low incomes.
Read moreWhat Works Evidence Notes: Prevention
Homelessness prevention has become an increasingly important part of addressing homelessness in the UK and a number of countries across the world, including the US, Finland, Canada, Australia and Germany. This paper provides an overview of the evidence on the success of interventions for preventing homelessness.
Read moreWhat Works Evidence Notes: Drugs and Alcohol
This paper provides an overview of the evidence on the relationship between homelessness and substance and alcohol use. It captures recent trends and identifies what we know about what works for whom. We conclude with some initial thoughts on implications for policy and practice.
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