Homeless adolescents are in Sweden rather invisible, as a group. There is no established definition or description of the problem, nor any uniform terms regarding it. The purpose of this study is to investigate how four different organizations, based on their basic principles, describe the group Homeless adolescents. We discuss why the organizations reason as they do, and what it leads to. In order to do so we have performed qualitative interviews with representatives from each organization.

The purpose of this study was to investigate how the daily press, morning and evening papers respectively, describe Homeless people and their situation from a number of chosen articles. Was there a possibility to make clear if the public opinion of Homelessness has changed from a media perspective during the last five years? In order to meet the purpose of the study, the authors have used discourse analysis of the chosen articles as well as the theory of social constructions and the theory of stigmatizing. The articles have been chosen from the two largest daily morning papers and the two largest evening papers. From each article many rich and close quotations are used, which subsequently have been analysed and interpreted.

The number of people that are categorized as being Homeless in the Swedish society are increasing. This might be an indication that the methods being used today shows not to be working efficient enough. A group of researchers connected to the University of Lund are now in a process to spread new workingmethods against the problems with Homelessness in Sweden. Their goal is to completely erase Homelessness as a social problem. This new method of working is distinctively different from the one currently beeing used.

The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze Homelessness in a medium-sized municipality from an organizational perspective. Some of the central questions in this study are: How is the cause of Homelessness explained? How do different actors in the community address, prevent and combat Homelessness? Who is responsible for the Homelessness?This study is based on four semi-structured interviews with organizations that work with Homelessness. The analysis is based on problem definition theory.The result of this study shows that Homelessness is a problem in this medium-sized municipality even if it is not a big one and that it is often closely combined with substance abuse. The responsibility for the Homeless is on the Homeless themselves and the social service because that causes is, according to this study, individual based.  .

The background of this study stemmed from the notion that the majority of Homeless women with substance abuse, most of all, wanted a secured place of their own to stay. Few involved professionals agreed and instead of perceiving housing as a human right the women were mostly offered various types of short-term social housing. The purpose of this study was thus to examine and analyze how professionals attached to the social services and public housing companies in Gothenburg explained that Homeless women with substance abuse were excluded from accommodation on the open housing market. The qualitative approach included ten interviews with eleven professionals in Gothenburg. The theoretical framework consisted mainly of Bourdieu's analytical concepts of field, doxa as well as social, economic and cultural, alongside symbolic capital.

Homelessness has always been and will always be a problem in every society. How should we organize the work and care for these people? There are three different types of welfare states, the liberal, the conservative and the social democratic. In the liberal welfare state the market is the supplier of the public good. In the conservative state the family and church and in the social democratic the state is the supplier of the public welfare.The Swedish welfare state has been the archetype of social democratic welfare with de principal of ?Folkhemmet? in focus.

The aim of this study was to highlight Homelessness through the perspective of formerly Homeless men and women. The research questions focused on the informants experiences of the process into and out of the Homeless situation and how their experiences could contribute to the knowledge about the social problem of Homelessness. Besides the theoretical perspective of narrative and life course research, Fuchs Ebaugh exit theory and Honneth confirmation theory were used as theoretical guidelines.The empirical material consists of five life stories obtained through indepth interviews. The results of the study indicate that alcohol and drug use was of importance for the process towards Homelessness. External factors as the change in the organization of the housing market in the 1990´s may also had an impact on the lifes of the informants.

The purpose of this paper is to study how people without home experience social services and how they experience their space of action when they meet social services. In order to answer these questions, a qualitative approach has been used. The empirical material consists of five interviews with people who have contact with social services because they are Homeless. To support my analysis of the space of action for the persons being interviewed, I?ve used two theoretical perspectives, power analysis by Michel Foucault and Rational Choice.

I have conducted a review on four countries in Scandinavia and the goal was to create a better understanding about what has caused Homelessness in this countries. The result shows that the causes of Homelessness can be explained by a variety of reasons. The most common causes of Homelessness were related to mental illness and drug abuse. There where also other causes of Homelessness, which was considered normal in Scandinavia. Examples of other causes were eviction, unemployment, housing policy, housing shortage, payment of debts, separations and family problems..

Many Homeless and private owned cats are relinquished to cat shelters. Shelters are often a very stressful place for cats and their welfare may be endangered. Today it is common that cats are housed in groups at cat shelters and there are some perceived problems in housing cats in groups. The social structure of the cat is very complex and although cats are basically solitary they can be kept in groups under the right conditions. The aim of this study was to investigate how cats in groups interact with each other at a cat shelter.

?Bakgrund: Att leva som hemlös kan innebära hälsoproblem. Forskning visar att hemlösa på grund av dåligt bemötande inte söker sig till vården. Mötet med hemlösa personer ska bygga på respekt och omtanke. Vårdpersonal behöver därför vara medvetna om och reflektera över beroendet av varandra i mötet.

The aim of this paper is to see how the local authorities in Norrköping create a way to look at Homelessness. This aim is examined with the help of the central questions: How does the municipality describe Homelessness as a phenomenon? What causes to Homelessness can be seen in the texts? How do they describe Homeless people? And What kind of actions are used or proposed? The analysis has been done with the tools and thoughts of the critical discourse analysis and made on text documents written by politics and employees of the city of Norrköping. The theories which have been used are those of postmodernism, welfare, Homelessness, civil society and relative poverty. The analysis shows that the way the municipality of Norrköping looks at Homelessness correspond with the way Homelessness is presented in current Swedish research.

Our main aim with this study is to shed a light over the social workers opinions about what they believe will be the consequences of introducing Housing First in the city of Stockholm. We wanted to examine the social workers perceptions about how Housing First could change their client?s autonomy and justice. Therefor we accomplished five qualitative interviews with social workers. We analyzed our empirical material with the theoretical terms; justice, autonomy and intern role-conflict.

Detta examensarbete är gjort med syfte att identifiera diskurser i medias framställning av hemlösheten och de hemlösa samt att se om dessa diskurser har någon ideologisk grund. Tidigare forskning har visat på två huvudgrupper av diskurser där individens ansvar respektive samhällets ansvar ställs mot varandra. För detta genomfördes en diskursiv analys av debattartiklar och politiska uttalanden som publicerats i Aftonbladet och Dagens Nyheter. Vi valde att fokusera på dessa två tidningar då de är två av de tidningar som ges ut i störst upplaga i Sverige.  Tre övergripande diskurser kunde skönjas; samhällsperspektivet, individperspektivet samt individ- och samhällsperspektiv. I vårt resultat visade det sig att individperspektivet var den mest utbredda diskursen.

The aim of this study was to use stories from three people who previously lived in Homelessness to increase the knowledge of the social network's impact on the process of exiting Homelessness. In order to answer our questions, whether the social network facilitated or hindered the way out of Homelessness, we have used a narrative method to take advantage of these person's life stories. As a theoretical perspective, we used the ecology of human development, based on the idea that human development occurs in interaction with their environment at different levels. Results showed those interviewees' networks had a significant impact on their path out of Homelessness and that these relationships both facilitated and hindered this process. At the same time, these relationships affected our interviewees in different ways and were found in various areas of life, which indicates that there is more than one way out of Homelessness.