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 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.

The aim of this study was to illuminate how social workers in social services work with the social phenomenon, Homelessness in two municipalities. The study is based on qualitative semi-structured interviews with interviewees from a department of social services. Our theories that we used was resistant inequality, structural discrimination, exclusion, empowerment and representation. After compilation of our empirical our conclusions are that Homelessness is a complex phenomenon. Social workers handles Homelessness based on client?s needs and the work is individualized.

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.

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..

This study aims to examine how the interventions for homeless persons in the municipality of Kalmar are organized. The study is based on four half-structured qualitative interviews with both representatives from different instances and also from persons who have experience of being homeless.The theoretical bases we have used to analyze the material are organization theory, specifically the concept of bureaucracy. Our results show that Homelessness is not seen as a problem in itself, since the general view is that homeless people often have a complex problem scenario where drug- and alcohol abuse and mental illness are common.It is often the latter that takes priority in the interventions and the housing question is therefore neglected. We also found that social services do not have a satisfactory structure around the organization of the work on Homelessness. They do not have any specific device in Kalmar that focus on Homelessness issues with the result that the existing units are forced to take care of the work of Homelessness.

The aim of this study has been to achieve an increased understanding of the meaning of home for people in Homelessness. The study is based on texts written by people in Homelessness and a qualitative content analysis has been used to process the material. The result has been analysed with an inductive approach, using parts of the analysis method grounded theory. Three aspects of the meaning of home was identified in the texts; control, self-determination and independence. The lack of a home means a major limitation concerning these aspects, according to the texts.

Homelessness and homeless people is something that is described and explained in different ways over time. Since the 1950s, two discourses about Homelessness and its causes has been competing with each other. One discourse hold the meaning that Homelessness is caused by housing shortage and the other focus on individual shortcomings that make homeless to unsuitable tenants. In the media, Homelessness and homeless often is associated with crime, addiction and mental illness, this reinforce the public perception of homeless people as deviants, which separates the homeless from society even more. The purpose of this study is to examine whether media representations of homeless and Homelessness in an evening paper and a morning paper, has changed in the 2000s, and if these representations are consistent with those found in the reports of Homelessness from The National Board of Wealth and Welfare. In order to achieve the purpose of the study and answer our research questions, the authors have used a discourse analytical approach using some key analytical tools from both critical discourse analysis and discourse theory in the analysis of the empirical material.

This is a qualitative study on bachelor level at the School of Social Work. The aim of the thesis was to describe how selected municipal commissioners and social workers in Malmö view the complex of problems, and different solutions, concerning Homelessness.Malmö, the third largest city of Sweden, is struggling with serious problems concerning Homelessness. Possible solutions are being debated, and the opinions differ widely, depending on ideological standpoint. We wanted to find out how selected municipal commissioners and social workers view the complex of problems, related laws and local guidelines, and measures to improve the situation. In order to have a free discussion, but within limits we used semi-structured interviews.Our results show that both the municipal commissioners and social workers regarded Homelessness mainly as an individual issue, related to dissocial aspects of the individual.

This study aims to examine how the interventions for homeless persons in the municipality of Kalmar are organized. The study is based on four half-structured qualitative interviews with both representatives from different instances and also from persons who have experience of being homeless.The theoretical bases we have used to analyze the material are organization theory, specifically the concept of bureaucracy. Our results show that Homelessness is not seen as a problem in itself, since the general view is that homeless people often have a complex problem scenario where drug- and alcohol abuse and mental illness are common.It is often the latter that takes priority in the interventions and the housing question is therefore neglected. We also found that social services do not have a satisfactory structure around the organization of the work on Homelessness. They do not have any specific device in Kalmar that focus on Homelessness issues with the result that the existing units are forced to take care of the work of Homelessness.

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.

This study aims to find out how the way out of Homelessness can look and be experienced and in what way persons with experience of being homeless might think about our society´s different solutions to this problem. The study is based on five half-structured qualitative interviews with persons who have experience of being homeless. The theoretical perspectives used to analyze the empirism are ?Stages of Change? and ?The Process of Role Exit?, both dealing with changing processes. Our results show that the way out of Homelessness can be long and very hard to achieve, and the change in housing situation can be either a process towards a more and more stable housing or through an opportunity that suddenly appears.Another result shows that people with the experience of being homeless can be negative to the solutions offered by our society but be positive to the idea of Housing First.

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.

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 intention of this essay was to describe and analyse the participant's experience in a work project based on a holistic model. The main purpose of the project was to integrate homeless people back into society. My main questions were: 1. What meaning did the project have in the participant's life? 2.