COVID-19 and homelessness: Sweden

Marcus Knutagård

Chapter 26 in Research Handbook on Homelessness, 2024, pp 349-359 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The aim of the chapter is to provide an overview of the impact of COVID-19 on homelessness in Sweden. It underlines the lack of policies towards homelessness during the pandemic. The chapter also highlights the introduction of new municipal guidelines that have made it increasingly difficult for people being unhoused to get help from the social services. The chapter also discuss the distinction between socially homeless and structurally homeless. One consequence of this distinction is that many so-called structurally homeless individuals and families are forced to live in precarious housing situations. At the end of the chapter the intersection between migration and homelessness is being discussed.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Geography; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy; Urban and Regional Studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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