Coping with homelessness : issues to be tackled and best practices in Europe

Part 1 Poverty, social exclusion and homelessness: weakening and breaking of social ties - analysis of explanatory factors free markets, poverty and social exclusion theoretical uses and misuses of the notion of exclusion homelessness and the housing factor - learning from the debate on homelessness and poverty conclusion and policy implications. Part 2 The research of homelessness - data and methodology: data sources on homelessness and data necessary for needs-based research annual survey on homelessness in Finland - definitions and methodological aspects existing and proposed data gathering systems in the Netherlands concerning the homeless living in the streets of Vienna - the methodology of the 1993 ICCR study the homeless in Paris -a representative sample survey of users of services for the homeless using "capture-recapture" to estimate the size of the homeless population US homeless research during the 1980s and early 1990s - approaches, lessons learned and methodologcial options conclusions and policy implications. Part 3 Value and policies in relation to homelessness: regimes of social policy in Europe and the patterning of homelessness different policy and homelessness - the Danish case housing policy and homelessness in Finland conclusions and policy implications. Part 4 Services for homeless people - needs and provisions: social emergency -between myth and reality the heterogeneity of homelessness and the consequences for service provision temporary accommodation for homeless people in Germany with special focus on the provision for immigrants and assylum seekers urgent accommodation shelters for homeless people in Greece - who provides services and who uses them? reflections on homelessness as seen from an institution for the homeless in Copenhagen conclusions and policy implications. Part 5 The research agenda: reflections on needs for future research.