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SEM-ABRIGO – Strategies for helping the homeless: the case of the city of Lisbon

Type:

National

State:

Ongoing

Research Groups:

Environmental and Socio-economic Dynamics: Management for Sustainability

Development:

Seed projects

Lead Researcher:

José Lúcio

e-Geo Team:

José Lúcio (Principal Researcher), Luís Almeida (MA Student) e Filomena Marques (MA Student).

Funding:

Pluriannual Funding Programme, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia FCT

Duration:

2008-2010

Objectives:

To analyse the evolution of policies for helping the homeless in Portugal;
To analyse the policies for helping and supporting the homeless;
To implement a comparative study involving Portugal and the United States, a country with a long tradition of dealing with and researching the homeless;
To propose some guidelines for the revision of the framework of local policies to for helping and supporting the homeless in the city of Lisbon.