Guy Johnson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3770975 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Guy Johnson |
| NOMBRES | Guy |
| APELLIDO | Johnson |
| FIRMA | JOHNSON G |
| AFILIACIONES | RMIT University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0116-5424 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 210 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Homelessness Service Usage Patterns of 30,000 Homeless and At‐Risk Households
Over the last three decades, overseas researchers have utilised administrative data to identify distinct patterns in shelter use. In Australia, the use of administrative data to understand service utilisation patterns among people ‘at risk’ of homelessness and experiencing homelessness is limited. A small number of Australian studies suggest that there are different patterns of service use. However, these studies are either drawn from single site…
Social housing tenants differently satisfied with life? The influence of previous homelessness
JUE Insight
Interventions that combine unconditional permanent housing with support services, known as Housing First approaches, generally improve housing outcomes for people who have experienced chronic homelessness. However, little is known about their long-run outcomes or the consequences of ending such services. We investigate both aspects by examining the long-run effects of an intensive support program on the housing, employment, and health outcomes of…
Making home or making do
This paper critically examines the concept of alternative forms of ‘homemaking’ among people without a settled home. The introductory section establishes the framework for the paper, providing an overview of homelessness and the homemaking literature. Strengths in the homemaking approach are identified, which reconceptualises homelessness as a human-centered phenomenon that can be understood as ‘resistance’ to societies that block accesses to mai…
Examining tenancy duration and exit patterns in a single-site, mixed-tenure Permanent Supportive Housing setting
Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) is recognized as an effective intervention for individuals who have experienced chronic homelessness. However, evidence of its efficacy mostly comes from scattered-site PSH. This paper investigates tenancy duration and exit patterns in a single-site, mixed-tenure PSH setting, drawing on nine years of tenancy administration data from a site in Melbourne, Australia. Our methodology combines survival and hazard ana…
Social Work Education and Homelessness
Homelessness is a significant issue facing many Australian people, and one that social workers are likely to encounter in their professional lives. At present, though, there are no guidelines for social work programs on how to transfer homelessness knowledge into social work education programs. Social work curricula need to be informed by homelessness research, policy, and practice to reflect the contemporary Australian terrain, and to be respons…
Homelessness
Homelessness remains a major social policy issue around the world. This entry starts by examining different techniques researchers use to count the homeless. It then describes shifts in the size and characteristics of the homeless population that occurred in the twentieth century, before outlining the different methods researchers have used to examine homelessness. The final sections examine different theoretical explanations
Sitting in the waiting room
Homeless persons tend to have poorer health than the broader population, and thus have a greater need for health services. However, due to resource constraints impeding access to health care, and the chaotic nature of living as a homeless person, this most disadvantaged group may face greater difficulties accessing health services. We use an Australian panel survey, Journeys Home, to contrast health service use by people experiencing homelessness…
How do housing and labour markets affect individual homelessness
We examine the impact of housing and labour market conditions on individual risks of homelessness. Our innovation is a focus on homelessness entries, although findings from jointly estimated homelessness entry and exit probit equations are reported. Risky behaviours and life experiences such as regular use of drugs, the experience of violence and biographies of acute disadvantage lead to a higher risk of becoming homeless. Public housing is a str…
From long-term homelessness to stable housing
This paper uses the term ‘liminality’ to refer to the experience of feeling like an outsider when people are transitioning from one housing status (long-term homelessness) to another (housed). Three dimensions of liminality are identified: ‘material’, ‘relational’ and ‘psychological’. The material dimension covers how people feel about their housing and whether they find it difficult to make the transition from homeless to housed. The relational …
Psychological distress and homeless duration
We examine whether psychological distress levels vary with homeless and housed duration. We do this using longitudinal data from a national survey of persons facing housing insecurity that, unlike prior studies, is not restricted to those who are currently homeless (or to particular subsets of the homeless), but instead follows a nationally representative sample of Australians experiencing housing insecurity. This allows us to use methods that is…
No Home Away from Home
This paper explores the cultural and biographical specificity of home by examining the connections between young people's experiences of out-of-home care and their definitions of home. The paper draws on 77 in-depth interviews with young people who had lived away from their families in the Australian out-of-home care system. The paper applies a psycho-social conceptualisation of ‘home’ to argue that home was a crucial symbol through which these y…
How many Australians have slept rough
How many Australians have experienced homelessness during their lifetime and how many people have slept rough? This paper draws on evidence from a random sample of the Australian population to answer these questions (N=1349). First, we explain the methodology for the research. Then we focus on the number of people who have experienced homelessness and the different experiences of men and women. Next, we investigate how many people have slept roug…
Understanding lifetime homeless duration
The variation in the amount of time people remain homeless has important policy implications with respect to reducing long‐term homelessness and designing more effective early intervention approaches. This paper examines the factors that influence lifetime homeless duration in Australia using data from the first wave of Journeys Home, a new national survey of individuals exposed to high levels of housing insecurity that employs more rigorous samp…
Pathways into adult homelessness
This article uses information from a large administrative database ( N = 3941) to outline five ideal typical pathways into adult homelessness. The pathways are called 'housing crisis', 'family breakdown', 'substance abuse', 'mental health' and 'youth to adult'. Then we explain why people on some pathways remain homeless for longer than others. People on a housing crisis or family breakdown pathway do not form strong friendships in the homeless su…
Dream on”
The basis on which policy-makers, researchers and commentators promote the idea that Australia has witnessed a major decline in homeownership is reliant on measurements that are rarely scrutinized. In this article, certain findings about changes in homeownership rates are examined while also pointing to the ways that counting processes informed by certain assumptions that are problematic. While the material used in this article is Australian, we …
Sex Differences in Hadza Dental Wear Patterns
Liquid Life, Solid Homes
This article examines the homeownership aspirations and plans of two groups of young Australian adults defined by their class position as 'disadvantaged' and 'middle class'. We draw on Bauman's idea of liquid modernity and 'liquid life' to frame our analysis. Despite being under less pressure to adopt socially prescribed adult transitions that applied to previous generations - a steady job, marriage, family and a house in the suburbs - young adul…
Housing Pathways of Young People Who Have Left Out-of-Home State Care
As a group, young people leaving care experience multiple forms of disadvantage, including high rates of homelessness and insecure housing. Researchers have described the associated housing and life trajectories in terms of pathways but few have explicitly referenced the metaphor to the interrelationship of structure and agency that is core to Clapham's housing pathways approach. In this paper we draw on semi-structured interviews with 77 young p…
Are the Homeless Mentally Ill
In Australia, it is widely believed that most homeless people have mental health issues and that mental illness is a primary cause of homelessness. This paper uses information from a study of 4,291 homeless people in Melbourne to investigate these propositions. The research found that 15 per cent of the homeless had mental health issues prior to becoming homeless. This challenges the community perception that mental illness is the primary cause o…
Security and Anxiety of Homeownership
This article explores narratives of homeownership by middle‐class Australians in the context of an increasingly complex and volatile housing market. Our analysis focuses on people's perceptions and feelings of security and anxiety at different stages in their housing careers. We use the concepts of ontological security and risk society to frame the analysis. The participants' narratives of homeownership were mainly positive, in tune with a well e…
The Culture of Homelessness
Megan Ravenshill Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2007, ISBN‐13: 978‐0‐754‐6‐7190‐9 The homeless culture or subculture is a widely used concept among researchers with an interest in the processes by which
Homelessness and Substance Abuse
The present paper uses a social selection and social adaptation framework to investigate whether problematic substance use normally precedes or follows homelessness. Clarifying temporal order is important for policy and program design. The paper uses information from a large dataset (n=4,291) gathered at two services in Melbourne, supplemented by 65 indepth interviews. We found that 43% of the sample had substance abuse problems. Of these people,…
From Youth to Adult Homelessness
Governments have shown an interest in early intervention strategies to reduce youth homelessness, but critics say that early intervention programs lack clear outcomes. This paper investigates what happens when early intervention programs are not in place and young people progress to adult homelessness. The paper assesses the ‘social adaptation’ hypothesis that the longer young people are homeless the more they adapt to homelessness as a way of li…
On the outside
Pathways into adult homelessness
This article uses information from a large administrative database ( N = 3941) to outline five ideal typical pathways into adult homelessness. The pathways are called 'housing crisis', 'family breakdown', 'substance abuse', 'mental health' and 'youth to adult'. Then we explain why people on some pathways remain homeless for longer than others. People on a housing crisis or family breakdown pathway do not form strong friendships in the homeless su…
Homelessness and Substance Abuse
The present paper uses a social selection and social adaptation framework to investigate whether problematic substance use normally precedes or follows homelessness. Clarifying temporal order is important for policy and program design. The paper uses information from a large dataset (n=4,291) gathered at two services in Melbourne, supplemented by 65 indepth interviews. We found that 43% of the sample had substance abuse problems. Of these people,…
Security and Anxiety of Homeownership
This article explores narratives of homeownership by middle‐class Australians in the context of an increasingly complex and volatile housing market. Our analysis focuses on people's perceptions and feelings of security and anxiety at different stages in their housing careers. We use the concepts of ontological security and risk society to frame the analysis. The participants' narratives of homeownership were mainly positive, in tune with a well e…
Liquid Life, Solid Homes
This article examines the homeownership aspirations and plans of two groups of young Australian adults defined by their class position as 'disadvantaged' and 'middle class'. We draw on Bauman's idea of liquid modernity and 'liquid life' to frame our analysis. Despite being under less pressure to adopt socially prescribed adult transitions that applied to previous generations - a steady job, marriage, family and a house in the suburbs - young adul…
Sex Differences in Hadza Dental Wear Patterns
Housing Pathways of Young People Who Have Left Out-of-Home State Care
As a group, young people leaving care experience multiple forms of disadvantage, including high rates of homelessness and insecure housing. Researchers have described the associated housing and life trajectories in terms of pathways but few have explicitly referenced the metaphor to the interrelationship of structure and agency that is core to Clapham's housing pathways approach. In this paper we draw on semi-structured interviews with 77 young p…
How do housing and labour markets affect individual homelessness
We examine the impact of housing and labour market conditions on individual risks of homelessness. Our innovation is a focus on homelessness entries, although findings from jointly estimated homelessness entry and exit probit equations are reported. Risky behaviours and life experiences such as regular use of drugs, the experience of violence and biographies of acute disadvantage lead to a higher risk of becoming homeless. Public housing is a str…
No Home Away from Home
This paper explores the cultural and biographical specificity of home by examining the connections between young people's experiences of out-of-home care and their definitions of home. The paper draws on 77 in-depth interviews with young people who had lived away from their families in the Australian out-of-home care system. The paper applies a psycho-social conceptualisation of ‘home’ to argue that home was a crucial symbol through which these y…
From long-term homelessness to stable housing
This paper uses the term ‘liminality’ to refer to the experience of feeling like an outsider when people are transitioning from one housing status (long-term homelessness) to another (housed). Three dimensions of liminality are identified: ‘material’, ‘relational’ and ‘psychological’. The material dimension covers how people feel about their housing and whether they find it difficult to make the transition from homeless to housed. The relational …
Are the Homeless Mentally Ill
In Australia, it is widely believed that most homeless people have mental health issues and that mental illness is a primary cause of homelessness. This paper uses information from a study of 4,291 homeless people in Melbourne to investigate these propositions. The research found that 15 per cent of the homeless had mental health issues prior to becoming homeless. This challenges the community perception that mental illness is the primary cause o…
From Youth to Adult Homelessness
Governments have shown an interest in early intervention strategies to reduce youth homelessness, but critics say that early intervention programs lack clear outcomes. This paper investigates what happens when early intervention programs are not in place and young people progress to adult homelessness. The paper assesses the ‘social adaptation’ hypothesis that the longer young people are homeless the more they adapt to homelessness as a way of li…
The Debate About Homelessness
Three definitions of homelessness which have been influential in Australia may be categorised as the literal, the subjectivist and the cultural. The literal definition equates homelessness with ‘rooflessness’. The subjectivist definition attempts to establish homelessness ‘ by asking people about the adequacy of their accommodation The cultural definition argues that homelessness is an objective category which is not dependent on people's percept…
How many Australians have slept rough
How many Australians have experienced homelessness during their lifetime and how many people have slept rough? This paper draws on evidence from a random sample of the Australian population to answer these questions (N=1349). First, we explain the methodology for the research. Then we focus on the number of people who have experienced homelessness and the different experiences of men and women. Next, we investigate how many people have slept roug…
Making home or making do
This paper critically examines the concept of alternative forms of ‘homemaking’ among people without a settled home. The introductory section establishes the framework for the paper, providing an overview of homelessness and the homemaking literature. Strengths in the homemaking approach are identified, which reconceptualises homelessness as a human-centered phenomenon that can be understood as ‘resistance’ to societies that block accesses to mai…
Understanding lifetime homeless duration
The variation in the amount of time people remain homeless has important policy implications with respect to reducing long‐term homelessness and designing more effective early intervention approaches. This paper examines the factors that influence lifetime homeless duration in Australia using data from the first wave of Journeys Home, a new national survey of individuals exposed to high levels of housing insecurity that employs more rigorous samp…
Dream on”
The basis on which policy-makers, researchers and commentators promote the idea that Australia has witnessed a major decline in homeownership is reliant on measurements that are rarely scrutinized. In this article, certain findings about changes in homeownership rates are examined while also pointing to the ways that counting processes informed by certain assumptions that are problematic. While the material used in this article is Australian, we …
Psychological distress and homeless duration
We examine whether psychological distress levels vary with homeless and housed duration. We do this using longitudinal data from a national survey of persons facing housing insecurity that, unlike prior studies, is not restricted to those who are currently homeless (or to particular subsets of the homeless), but instead follows a nationally representative sample of Australians experiencing housing insecurity. This allows us to use methods that is…
Examining tenancy duration and exit patterns in a single-site, mixed-tenure Permanent Supportive Housing setting
Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) is recognized as an effective intervention for individuals who have experienced chronic homelessness. However, evidence of its efficacy mostly comes from scattered-site PSH. This paper investigates tenancy duration and exit patterns in a single-site, mixed-tenure PSH setting, drawing on nine years of tenancy administration data from a site in Melbourne, Australia. Our methodology combines survival and hazard ana…
Social Work Education and Homelessness
Homelessness is a significant issue facing many Australian people, and one that social workers are likely to encounter in their professional lives. At present, though, there are no guidelines for social work programs on how to transfer homelessness knowledge into social work education programs. Social work curricula need to be informed by homelessness research, policy, and practice to reflect the contemporary Australian terrain, and to be respons…
Homelessness Service Usage Patterns of 30,000 Homeless and At‐Risk Households
Over the last three decades, overseas researchers have utilised administrative data to identify distinct patterns in shelter use. In Australia, the use of administrative data to understand service utilisation patterns among people ‘at risk’ of homelessness and experiencing homelessness is limited. A small number of Australian studies suggest that there are different patterns of service use. However, these studies are either drawn from single site…
The Debate About Homelessness
Three definitions of homelessness which have been influential in Australia may be categorised as the literal, the subjectivist and the cultural. The literal definition equates homelessness with ‘rooflessness’. The subjectivist definition attempts to establish homelessness ‘ by asking people about the adequacy of their accommodation The cultural definition argues that homelessness is an objective category which is not dependent on people's percept…
Homelessness and Substance Abuse
The present paper uses a social selection and social adaptation framework to investigate whether problematic substance use normally precedes or follows homelessness. Clarifying temporal order is important for policy and program design. The paper uses information from a large dataset (n=4,291) gathered at two services in Melbourne, supplemented by 65 indepth interviews. We found that 43% of the sample had substance abuse problems. Of these people,…
From Youth to Adult Homelessness
Governments have shown an interest in early intervention strategies to reduce youth homelessness, but critics say that early intervention programs lack clear outcomes. This paper investigates what happens when early intervention programs are not in place and young people progress to adult homelessness. The paper assesses the ‘social adaptation’ hypothesis that the longer young people are homeless the more they adapt to homelessness as a way of li…
On the outside
Security and Anxiety of Homeownership
This article explores narratives of homeownership by middle‐class Australians in the context of an increasingly complex and volatile housing market. Our analysis focuses on people's perceptions and feelings of security and anxiety at different stages in their housing careers. We use the concepts of ontological security and risk society to frame the analysis. The participants' narratives of homeownership were mainly positive, in tune with a well e…
The Culture of Homelessness
Megan Ravenshill Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2007, ISBN‐13: 978‐0‐754‐6‐7190‐9 The homeless culture or subculture is a widely used concept among researchers with an interest in the processes by which
Housing Pathways of Young People Who Have Left Out-of-Home State Care
As a group, young people leaving care experience multiple forms of disadvantage, including high rates of homelessness and insecure housing. Researchers have described the associated housing and life trajectories in terms of pathways but few have explicitly referenced the metaphor to the interrelationship of structure and agency that is core to Clapham's housing pathways approach. In this paper we draw on semi-structured interviews with 77 young p…
Are the Homeless Mentally Ill
In Australia, it is widely believed that most homeless people have mental health issues and that mental illness is a primary cause of homelessness. This paper uses information from a study of 4,291 homeless people in Melbourne to investigate these propositions. The research found that 15 per cent of the homeless had mental health issues prior to becoming homeless. This challenges the community perception that mental illness is the primary cause o…
Dream on”
The basis on which policy-makers, researchers and commentators promote the idea that Australia has witnessed a major decline in homeownership is reliant on measurements that are rarely scrutinized. In this article, certain findings about changes in homeownership rates are examined while also pointing to the ways that counting processes informed by certain assumptions that are problematic. While the material used in this article is Australian, we …
Sex Differences in Hadza Dental Wear Patterns
Liquid Life, Solid Homes
This article examines the homeownership aspirations and plans of two groups of young Australian adults defined by their class position as 'disadvantaged' and 'middle class'. We draw on Bauman's idea of liquid modernity and 'liquid life' to frame our analysis. Despite being under less pressure to adopt socially prescribed adult transitions that applied to previous generations - a steady job, marriage, family and a house in the suburbs - young adul…
Understanding lifetime homeless duration
The variation in the amount of time people remain homeless has important policy implications with respect to reducing long‐term homelessness and designing more effective early intervention approaches. This paper examines the factors that influence lifetime homeless duration in Australia using data from the first wave of Journeys Home, a new national survey of individuals exposed to high levels of housing insecurity that employs more rigorous samp…
Pathways into adult homelessness
This article uses information from a large administrative database ( N = 3941) to outline five ideal typical pathways into adult homelessness. The pathways are called 'housing crisis', 'family breakdown', 'substance abuse', 'mental health' and 'youth to adult'. Then we explain why people on some pathways remain homeless for longer than others. People on a housing crisis or family breakdown pathway do not form strong friendships in the homeless su…
No Home Away from Home
This paper explores the cultural and biographical specificity of home by examining the connections between young people's experiences of out-of-home care and their definitions of home. The paper draws on 77 in-depth interviews with young people who had lived away from their families in the Australian out-of-home care system. The paper applies a psycho-social conceptualisation of ‘home’ to argue that home was a crucial symbol through which these y…
How many Australians have slept rough
How many Australians have experienced homelessness during their lifetime and how many people have slept rough? This paper draws on evidence from a random sample of the Australian population to answer these questions (N=1349). First, we explain the methodology for the research. Then we focus on the number of people who have experienced homelessness and the different experiences of men and women. Next, we investigate how many people have slept roug…
From long-term homelessness to stable housing
This paper uses the term ‘liminality’ to refer to the experience of feeling like an outsider when people are transitioning from one housing status (long-term homelessness) to another (housed). Three dimensions of liminality are identified: ‘material’, ‘relational’ and ‘psychological’. The material dimension covers how people feel about their housing and whether they find it difficult to make the transition from homeless to housed. The relational …
Psychological distress and homeless duration
We examine whether psychological distress levels vary with homeless and housed duration. We do this using longitudinal data from a national survey of persons facing housing insecurity that, unlike prior studies, is not restricted to those who are currently homeless (or to particular subsets of the homeless), but instead follows a nationally representative sample of Australians experiencing housing insecurity. This allows us to use methods that is…
How do housing and labour markets affect individual homelessness
We examine the impact of housing and labour market conditions on individual risks of homelessness. Our innovation is a focus on homelessness entries, although findings from jointly estimated homelessness entry and exit probit equations are reported. Risky behaviours and life experiences such as regular use of drugs, the experience of violence and biographies of acute disadvantage lead to a higher risk of becoming homeless. Public housing is a str…
Sitting in the waiting room
Homeless persons tend to have poorer health than the broader population, and thus have a greater need for health services. However, due to resource constraints impeding access to health care, and the chaotic nature of living as a homeless person, this most disadvantaged group may face greater difficulties accessing health services. We use an Australian panel survey, Journeys Home, to contrast health service use by people experiencing homelessness…
Examining tenancy duration and exit patterns in a single-site, mixed-tenure Permanent Supportive Housing setting
Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) is recognized as an effective intervention for individuals who have experienced chronic homelessness. However, evidence of its efficacy mostly comes from scattered-site PSH. This paper investigates tenancy duration and exit patterns in a single-site, mixed-tenure PSH setting, drawing on nine years of tenancy administration data from a site in Melbourne, Australia. Our methodology combines survival and hazard ana…
Social Work Education and Homelessness
Homelessness is a significant issue facing many Australian people, and one that social workers are likely to encounter in their professional lives. At present, though, there are no guidelines for social work programs on how to transfer homelessness knowledge into social work education programs. Social work curricula need to be informed by homelessness research, policy, and practice to reflect the contemporary Australian terrain, and to be respons…
Homelessness
Homelessness remains a major social policy issue around the world. This entry starts by examining different techniques researchers use to count the homeless. It then describes shifts in the size and characteristics of the homeless population that occurred in the twentieth century, before outlining the different methods researchers have used to examine homelessness. The final sections examine different theoretical explanations
Making home or making do
This paper critically examines the concept of alternative forms of ‘homemaking’ among people without a settled home. The introductory section establishes the framework for the paper, providing an overview of homelessness and the homemaking literature. Strengths in the homemaking approach are identified, which reconceptualises homelessness as a human-centered phenomenon that can be understood as ‘resistance’ to societies that block accesses to mai…
JUE Insight
Interventions that combine unconditional permanent housing with support services, known as Housing First approaches, generally improve housing outcomes for people who have experienced chronic homelessness. However, little is known about their long-run outcomes or the consequences of ending such services. We investigate both aspects by examining the long-run effects of an intensive support program on the housing, employment, and health outcomes of…
Social housing tenants differently satisfied with life? The influence of previous homelessness
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