Researcher Anton Roberts of the Policy Evaluation and Researcher Unit (PERU) is proud to release this report in collaboration with Lifeshare. This detailed piece of work explores the role of complex need in frontline homelessness services - attempting to define the challenges faced, provide examples of best practice, and a host of recommendations for improved ways of working. This detailed service guide has been informed by Anton's co-productive doctoral research, which took place over a two-year period across provisions here in Manchester. The resource also draws heavily on the lived experience of the organisations staff, volunteers and service users. This resource would be of great use to any frontline workers/volunteers in the sector, as well as any frontline provision that works with vulnerable/marginalised groups. It is a reflection of the (at times) stark difficulties faced by third sector organisations, but also provides a series of realistic and practical solutions.

This project utilise the IPPR tax-benefit model to model the effects, at a household level, of changes to housing policy, accounting for the complexities in the benefit system.

Homelessness and welfare reform in England

The Centre for Homelessness Impact has appointed the Policy Evaluation and Research Unit at Manchester to undertake a systematic review of the effectiveness of harm reduction versus abstinence-based substance use interventions for people experiencing homelessness.

Publication Date: Monday 02 November 2020

Venue: Manchester School of Art (Benzie Building), Manchester Metropolitan University
Mon 26 November 2018

Homelessness has a devastating effect on those who experience it and is costly to the public purse.

New resarch by the Policy Evauation and Research Unit, commissioned by the Residentail Landlords Association, is released today.

In a new article in Inside Housing PERU's Dr. Chris O'Leary explains that the rough sleeping population is not homogenous, nor is it static.

Venue: Manchester, UK
Thu 15 March 2018

PERU’s Dr Chris O' Leary, an expert on housing, writes about home ownership.

A funded PhD scholarship is now available to evaluate co-production and the Manchester Homelessness Charter.

Venue: Manchester Metropolitan University, Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamund Street West, Manchester M15 6LL | Tue 9 June 2015

A recent study by the Department of Sociology & Criminology’s Policy and Evaluation Research Unit (PERU)

Co-creation and strength-based working as characteristics of social innovation bonds.