In August 1999 Cymdeithas Caer Las Cyf commissioned the Centre for Housing Policy to conduct research into the housing and support needs of homeless people, people threatened with homelessness and people who have recently been homeless in Swansea, Neath Port Talbot, Carmarthen and Bridgend. The results were published as a free report in 2000. In common with earlier research, this project indicated that access to GP services is very poor for people sleeping rough and that the biggest obstacles to access are popular attitudes towards rough sleepers and rough sleepers' view of themselves. The report of this major study of access to primary care services for people sleeping rough in England is available free from the Centre for Housing Policy. This collection of pieces on young people and housing is edited by Julie Rugg and features work principally by CHP researchers.
Several chapters explore aspects of youth homelessness.
Anwen Jones worked on detailed research into women's experience of rough sleeping and single homelessness commissioned by Crisis . An executive summary of the report is available on the CHP website. This JRF funded research examined the first two years of the Crisis Open House programme of shelters for homeless people who were sleeping rough. A specially written executive summary is available on the CHP website. This research examined the difficulties faced by many ex-prisoners in finding and in keeping accommodation.