Editing Talk:Crisis accommodation

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== Possible Expansion References ==

For a class project, I have complied a few references which could help expand this article. 



Homeless Families with Children. (2009, July). ''National Coalition for the Homeless''. Retrieved 12 October 2013 from 
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/families.html

    This article is about obstacles homeless families face. In particular, homeless people with children. It elaborates on the
    consequences of children being homeless - such as delayed development, and having higher rates of mental health problems compared
    to their non-homeless peers. I believe the information is accurate, but some of the cited statistics are somewhat dated. It was last
    revised in October, 2013, but some of the statistics and references were published in the 1990's. This article provides insight to
    an often overlooked demographic who might use crisis accommodations, but are thought of as the fastest growing segment of the 
    homeless population.

Kesler, S. M. (2012). PA Safe Place to Start Over: The Role of Design in Domestic Violence Shelters. ''Undergraduate Research
Journal for the Human Sciences'', 11(1).  
    This article addresses the issue of domestic violence shelter design, and how it affects the residents who use these
    facilities. Because there is limited information about emergency housing design; particularly domestic violence shelters, a study 
    had to be done I order to get a better idea. This work suggests that the overall design will have a more positive impact on the 
    residents, as well as the staff who work with domestic violence victims, if these shelters are designed around research findings 
    about how the victims fare better if they are sheltered in a supportive environment. The article contains much information about 
    the design trends of emergency accommodations which house battered women. There is also a lot of information concerning the cycle
    of domestic violence, which is how the victims end up in these shelters to begin with.


Kilbane, K. (2013, October 04). Fort Wayne Rescue Mission taking steps to deal with alleged gang violence against the homeless. ''The News-Sentinel'' . Retrieved from http://www.news-sentinel.com/    
    The above reference is a newspaper article about violent acts committed against the homeless around shelter property. This would 
    be of use when writing about further obstacles that people who are already having a tough time have to contend with.

Kushel, M. (2012). Older Homeless Adults: Can We Do More? ''Journal of General Internal Medicine'', 27(1), 5-6.

    In this article, the author explains that the growing older homeless population that has chronic health problems or are physically
    frail is not near adequately served by the temporary shelters which most of them end up residing in. Kushel then asked the question
    about whether the older homeless population can best be served by supportive housing as opposed to traditional homeless shelters 
    which are often not designed with the older population in mind. The information contained in this article is very credible because 
    it appeared in the peer -reviewed  Journal of General Internal Medicine. Also, the author, Margot Kushel, is a graduate of Yale 
    School of Medicine and has been practicing doctor for almost 20 years.

Morrison, S. R. (2009). The Fourth Amendment’s Applicability to Residents of Homeless Shelters. "Hamline Law Review", 32, 319. Retrieved from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1687427
    The residents of homeless shelters routinely have their constitutional right violated at homeless shelters because there is not
    really much legal precedent or even knowledge about how the Fourth Amendment should apply to the residents in a shelter for the
    homeless. This article discusses in length how the Fourth Amendment to U.S. Constitution might apply to residents of homeless 
    shelters. This article would be of value to anyone who wanted to dramatically expand this stub to include how the Constitutional 
    rights of people living in crisis accommodations may be violated. This is an excellent article with hundreds of legal footnotes.

Nunez, R. (2013). Rapidly rehousing homeless families: New york city-a case study. New York, NY: Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness Retrieved from http://www.icphusa.org/index.asp?page=16&report=107&pg=96
    This case study is about a newer strategy that the author refers to as “rapid rehousing/housing first”. The idea was for New York
    City to subsidize moving homeless families from homeless shelters to a permanent housing so they would no longer be homeless. After
    they found stable housing, it was though that these families would gain employment and be able to pay for housing themselves. As
    could be predicted by most normally functioning adults, the aforementioned attempt at reducing family homelessness was an abysmal 
    failure because there are too many variables involved with homelessness. I had to include this because it was a form of crisis
    accommodation that New York and other cities in America have tried or are trying.
Sguegila, K. ( 2012, January 17 ) Homeless science scholar to attend State of the Union speech. CNN. Retrieved from http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/17/us/new-york-homeless-scholar/

    This news report is about a young lady named Samantha Garvey. She was living in a homeless shelter with her family because 
    they were kicked out of their home when she was invited by New York Rep. Steve Israel to president Obama's State of the Union 
    speech. She drew attention because she was currently a semifinalist in a science talent search contest sponsored by Intel
    Corporation. This and similar stories would be useful if doing a part about notable people who have lived in an alternative shelter
    at one time.

Shelter Life for Homeless Men: Risk or Respite? (2008). In R. H. McNamara (Ed.), ''Praeger Perspectives. Homelessness in America'' (Vol. 1, pp. [43]-59). Westport, CT: Praeger. Retrieved from Gale Virtual Reference Library.

   The author examines whether homeless shelters are more harmful to the homeless than they are helpful by giving the readers an
   accurate portrayal of shelter life using data that he collected from the focus groups comprised of actual homeless persons. The
   information in this chapter is highly credible because R. H. McNamara has authored or contributed to numerous books covering a wide 
   range of social issues. Also, there are numerous references cited. This information is relevant to the topic because it contains 
   information and insight from actual homeless people about life in homeless shelters. It also gave me a little information about 
   kinds of crisis accommodations (like outdoor homeless camps) that I didn't even think about. 


U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FEMA (2013). Retrieved from website: http://asd.fema.gov/inter/hportal/home.htm
    This government run Web site is dedicated to assisting people who have been displaced from their housing because of a disaster. It
    allows people who need emergency housing to find it in their particular area using a simple drop down menu. This may be an 
    important link if expanding the article included writing about this type of crisis accommodation.


Walsh, S. M., & Donaldson, R. E. (2010). Invited commentary: National safe place: Meeting the immediate needs of runaway and homeless youth. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 39(5), 437-445.
    This piece is about National Safe Place. NSP is a non-profit organization dedicated to preventing homelessness among youth as
    well as putting youth who are experiencing a crisis in touch with people who can help with their basic and immediate needs such as
    a safe place to sleep and food. It is a better alternative to seeking help from state run child welfare organizations who are 
    perceived in their communities as basically cold, culturally insensitive bureaucrats. The NSP program puts emphasis on helping the
    child and his/her family before the problems which led to the child running away spiral out of control.





[[User:Steve L. Desoto|Steve L. Desoto]] ([[User talk:Steve L. Desoto|talk]]) 16:27, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

== Merge proposal ==

I propose merging [[Transitional shelter]] into [[Crisis accommodation]]. Transitional & Emergency Shelter seem to be the preferred American term for what in Australia is called Crisis accommodation and in the UK is called Temporary Accommodation. In Ireland, it's called Emergency Accommodation. I think the content in [[Transitional shelter]] can easily be explained in the context of this article, and merging them would not cause any article-size or [[WP:UNDUE|weighting]] problems. [[User:Komonzia|Komonzia]] ([[User talk:Komonzia|talk]]) 03:03, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

:{{u|Komonzia}}, no one has objected after a month, you should be good to carry out a [[WP:BOLDMERGE]] if this is something you're still interested in. '''[[User:Thebiguglyalien|<span style="color:#0c4709">Thebiguglyalien</span>]]''' ([[User talk:Thebiguglyalien|<span style="color:#472c09">talk</span>]]) 19:37, 1 March 2026 (UTC)
::Alright, I will look into it Soon™ <small>🔥</small>[[User:Komonzia|Komonzia]] ([[User talk:Komonzia|message]]) 16:58, 3 March 2026 (UTC)

== Post 2020 fixes ==

Since this article was part of an education project in 2020, changes were made that might no longer reflect references, several statements were found not supported by the sources, various irrelevant (to the topic or to the aim of documenting the knowledge around the topic) were added. Verifying the sources is in progress. Some parts are redundant unto each other, or don't relate to temporary/crisis accommodation (but instead relate directly to rough sleeping or to housing affordability).
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* Ref names before I started replacing content/sources -  {{diff|Crisis accommodation|1334677330|1334675799}}: aus-caravan, aus-melbourne-accommodation, 1997-rehousing-singles, aus-melbourne-crisis, aus-surveillance, aus-repeated-use, 2006-homeless-careers, 1992-disorders, 1998-dv-justice-homeless, and...
** These ones only had one use in the article when I started: usa-1998-tencities, 1995-aus-youth, aus-sydney-capacity, 2003-usa-mobility, aus-profiling, uk-ifs-morethanbuilding, ''"Emotional Distress" one which I deleted already''
* I want to verify / remove / replace most claims that are supported by these sources:
** {{cite book |last=Pleace |first=Nicholas |chapter=Rehousing single homeless people |title=Homelessness and Social Policy |year=1997 |pages=159–171 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |doi=10.4324/9780203443323_chapter_11 |isbn=978-0-203-27677-8}}
*** Because it's old and difficult to verify
** {{Cite journal |last=Hunt & Wegener |date=January 2004 |title="Let's Find Another Place" The experiences of homeless families using caravan parks as crisis housing |url=http://www.facs.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/vIA/newsaap/$File/Letsfindanotherplace.doc |archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20040623140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/42859/20040624-0000/www.facs.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/vIA/newsaap/$File/Letsfindanotherplace.doc |url-status=dead |archive-date=2004-06-23 |journal=HomeGround Services}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
*** Because it can only really support claims about one specific region (Victoria, Australia) and I'd prefer literature reviews or meta-analysis over single studies about one specific group's experiences
** {{Cite web |title=Crisis in crisis: the appalling state of emergency accommodation in Melbourne's north and west |url=https://nwhn.net.au/network-projects-and-advocacy/crisis-in-crisis/ |website=www.nwhn.net.au |access-date=2026-01-26}}
*** should be 'cite report' instead and I'm not sure it's neutral enough.
** {{Cite journal |last=Fopp |first=Rodney |date=2002-09-01 |title=Increasing the Potential for Gaze, Surveillance and Normalisation: the transformation of an Australian policy for people who are homeless. |url=https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/3393 |journal=Surveillance & Society |language=en-US |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=48–65 |doi=10.24908/ss.v1i1.3393 |issn=1477-7487 |doi-access=free}}
*** spot-checks so far revealed mostly-supported claims but in some cases the claim being made follows the reference to this source that supports it, rather than precedes it, or just happens to be somewhere in the same paragraph.
* Also want to attempt to verify all remaining sources (that I haven't already verified when I added them myself) and then decide what to do with each.
* While doing this I'll also be trying to replace suggestions of what government/people "should do" with what is referenced in the new sources.
}} [[User:Komonzia|Komonzia]] ([[User talk:Komonzia|talk]]) 20:53, 25 January 2026 (UTC)

:Suggested directions of further sourcing:
:* Ex-Soviet states, and the Soviet Union itself (obshchezhitie / Общежитие / workplace hostels - and kommunalki, tying access to institutions to residency registration (propiska), vagrancy laws that meant rough sleepers were detained)
:* East Asian economies, which probably have a rich history of changing policy in this area, and likely solved the same problems differently
:** South Korea: [https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%AA%BD%EB%B0%A9 jjokbang], [[gosiwon]], National Basic Living Security Act
:** Japan: [[Act on Special Measures concerning Assistance in Self-Support of Homeless]], Self-Support Assistance Centers, [[Homelessness in Japan]]
:** PRC: Relief/Assistance Management Stations (救助管理站), now-abolished "[[Custody and repatriation]]" system
:* More detail around how crisis housing looks post-foster-care, which is different from the poverty angle(s) already sourced in the article (issues related to housing children leaving care was a hot topic in the UK a few years ago)
:[[User:Komonzia|Komonzia]] ([[User talk:Komonzia|talk]]) 01:12, 26 January 2026 (UTC)