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Observatory on Homelessness

We’re a global thought leader on homelessness prevention. We work in collaboration with our partners to conduct and mobilize research designed to have an impact on solutions to homelessness.

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Reconnect Program Model Guide and Operations Manual

A School-Based Early Intervention to Prevent Youth Homelessness

Working Towards Ending Homelessness

Our homelessness prevention research agenda is guided by five intersecting themes co-created by researchers, community partners, policymakers, and people with lived experience of homelessness.

Shifting to Prevention and Early Intervention

Sustaining Successful Exits from Homelessness

Prevention and the Right to Housing

Integrated Structural and Systems Responses to Support Homelessness Prevention

Leveraging Data and Technology to Drive Policy and Practice

Our Projects & Initiatives

The Latest Homelessness Research

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