Reducing evictions and abandonment research

Staying In - Understanding evictions & abandonments from London's Hostels

This research report looks at the prevalence of evictions and abandonments from hostels in London as well as examining the causes, current approaches and the solutions to reducing evictions and abandonments.  The research includes a literature review as well as both quantitative and qualitative analysis, including interviews with 54 staff members and 64 clients. The Centre for Housing Policy at the University of York provided advice on the research throughout the project.

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You can also view the full Final Analysis of the Quantative Data for the research, as prepared by Centre for Housing Policy at The University of York, by clicking here.

For more information please see the Evictions and Abandonments - CHAIN data report - this report presents analysis undertaken by Broadway for the Homeless Link Evictions and Abandonments Research in November and December 2009.

This research has been undertaken as part of a three-year project to reduce evictions and abandonment. For full information please see our project page.