A Global Perspective of Homelessness

Photos courtesy of the International, 2016 Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Design Excellence

• Homelessness in Norway
• Homelessness in Spain
• Homelessness in China
• ChinaSource: Homelessness in China
• The Homeless Crisis in England
• Homelessness in Brasil
• Homelessness in France
• Homelessness in Canada
  • A Way Home Canada - A National Coalition Working to End Youth Homelessness in Canada (twitter feed)
• Poverty in Saudi Arabia
• The Homeless Crisis in Los Angeles, California
• Casualties of the Streets in Austin, Texas
• The UN Refugee Agency
• Poverty in Israel​ 
• Homelessness and Povery in India
  • Meet a Former Indian Street Child Who 's Now Giving Hope to Homeless Children
  • India Online: The Problem of Street Children
  • In World's Poorest Slums, Landfills and Polluted Rivers Become a Child's Playground 

Climate Refugees

• Climate Change and Disasters (UN Refugee Agency)
• The First Official Climate Refugees in the U.S. Race Against Time ( National Geographic)
• Climate Refugees - The Documentary 

Advocacy and Action

• ONE is an international campaigning and advocacy organization of more than 7 million people taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa...
• Free The Children carries the power of WE globally, empowering communities to lift themselves out of poverty through a holistic, sustainable international development model, Adopt a Village

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Housing First: Solving Homelessness in Finland

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News Stories

• Inhumane anti-homeless spikes in London creates uproar 

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• Clean streets: the mobile laundry service helping Australia's homeless

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• ​For many in Greece, the economic crisis takes a major toll: their homes

• Scandal of Europe's 11m empty homes

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A Look at Homelessness in the U.K.

Published on Feb 9, 2016
"Professor Green sets out to discover the modern face of homelessness, changing our perceptions of who the homeless are and the harsh reality of their lives. From the shocking streets of Manchester, where rough sleeping has doubled in the last year, to meeting those trapped in the same cycle of temporary hostel life and sofa surfing, he uncovers a generation of people without access to normal society or to their futures."

Click here to read an interview with the filmmaker.